Anthropometric measures and nutritional status in a healthy elderly population

BACKGROUND: Anthropometric evaluation is an essential feature of geriatric nutritional evaluation for determining malnutrition, being overweight, obesity, muscular mass loss, fat mass gain and adipose tissue redistribution. Anthropometric indicators are used to evaluate the prognosis of chronic and...

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Main Authors: Sánchez-García, Sergio, García-Peña, Carmen, Duque-López, María Ximena, Juárez-Cedillo, Teresa, Cortés-Núñez, Alma Rosa, Reyes-Beaman, Sandra
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769489/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17201919
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-2
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