Alzheimer's disease: nutritional status and cognitive aspects associated with disease severity.

CONCLUSION: elderly patients with AD present high sedentarity, risk of malnutrition, lower weight, BMI and LM, and increased FM. There was progressive impairment of nutritional status and cognition as the disease progressed. There is an association between the nutritional variables and cognitive aspects. PMID: 30525842 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30525842?dopt=Abstract

Source: Nutricion Hospitalaria - December 3, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Santos TBND, Fonseca LC, Tedrus GMAS, Delbue JL Tags: Nutr Hosp Source Type: research