Nutritional Risk and Body Mass Index Predict Hospitalization, Nursing Home Admissions, and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the UAB Study of Aging With 8.5 Years of Follow-Up

BACKGROUND. Nutritional risk and low BMI are common among community-dwelling older adults, but it is unclear what associations these factors have with health services utilization and mortality over long-term follow-up. The aim of this study was to assess prospective associations of nutritional risk...

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Main Authors: Buys, David R., Roth, David L., Ritchie, Christine S., Sawyer, Patricia, Allman, Richard M., Funkhouser, Ellen M., Hovater, Martha, Locher, Julie L.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158410/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24589863
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glu024
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