Is mini-nutritional assessment a reliable tool in detecting malnutrition in elderly with body weight excess?

CONCLUSIONS: Excess of weight, a condition progressively rising in the elderly population, may reduce the performance of cMNA® test in detecting malnutrition.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, case‒control analytic study.
PMID: 31549304 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - September 22, 2019 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Pes GM, Loriga S, Errigo A, Tedde P, Dore MP Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research