The nutritional status of Dutch elderly patients with Parkinson's disease.
| Autor: | Steijn, Jolanda, Harten, B., Flapper, E., Droogsma, E., Walderveen, P., Blaauw, M., Asselt, D. |
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DISEASE risk factors
PARKINSON'S disease MALNUTRITION STATISTICAL correlation FISHER exact test QUESTIONNAIRES REGRESSION analysis SCALE analysis (Psychology) STATISTICAL hypothesis testing STATISTICS T-test (Statistics) U-statistics DATA analysis PREDICTIVE tests CROSS-sectional method DATA analysis software DESCRIPTIVE statistics NUTRITIONAL status ODDS ratio OLD age |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging; Jun2014, Vol. 18 Issue 6, p601-607, 7p |
| Abstrakt: | Objectives: To assess the prevalence of (risk of) undernutrition in Dutch elder Parkinson's disease patients as well as it's risk factors. Design: Observational cross-sectional study. Setting: An outpatient clinic at the department Neurology of Medical Centre Leeuwarden, a large teaching hospital. Participants: 102 outpatients with Parkinson's disease aged 65 years and older were recruited. Measurements: Data regarding various aspects of undernutrition including socio-demographic aspect, disease characterisitics, nutritional status, appetite and overall-physical and psychological functioning were collected. Results: Undernutrition was diagnosed in 2.0% and 20.5% of the patients were categorized as being at risk of undernutrition. Care dependency and appetite were the two risk factors with the highest predictive value for an unfavorable nutritional status. Conclusion: Of Dutch elderly patients with Parkinson's Disease 22.5% had an unfavourable nutritional status. Dependency and appetite were the two risk factors with the highest predictive value fort his outcome. Because undernutrition can be regarded as a geriatric syndrome a comprehensive nutritional assessment should be done followed by nutritional interventions next to interventions focused on the risk factors. Further studies are needed to evaluate these interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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