Ivanski Flávia, Nascimento Lizziane De Paula, Fermino Bárbara Luísa, Bonini Juliana Sartori, Silva Weber Cláudio Francisco Nunes da, Valério Juliana Maria Silva, Fabbri Roberta, Bosetto Anne Karine, Gregório Elizama
Midwest State University.
Nutr Hosp. 2018 Apr 5;35(3):564-569. doi: 10.20960/nh.1626.
elderly's malnutrition is linked, among other factors, to chronic-degenerative diseases, requiring an improvement in the clinical evaluation of nutritional status of this population. Studies have tried to find out new tools to assess aged-people nutritional status. One of most used scales to investigate nutritional status on geriatric patients is the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA).
the present study aims to evaluate nutritional status of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, by comparison with a control group, via Mini Nutritional Assessment.
a cross-sectional study, which includes 35 alzheimer's old-people and 43 control old-people, was performed evaluating nutritional status with MNA.
total score of MNA in the alzheimer group shows that 71.42% were in malnutrition risk, 14.28% were malnourished and 14.25% presented normal nutritional status. In addition, in the control group 79.06% of patients (n = 34) were classified as having normal nutritional status and 20.93% (n = 9), as being at risk of malnutrition.
results reinforce the purpose that MNA can be used as a proper instrument to evaluate nutritional status in elderly, mainly in AD, because measuring risk and nutritional status of this population is indispensable.
老年人营养不良与慢性退行性疾病等多种因素相关，这就需要改进对该人群营养状况的临床评估。研究试图找到评估老年人营养状况的新工具。用于调查老年患者营养状况的最常用量表之一是微型营养评定法（MNA）。
本研究旨在通过微型营养评定法，与对照组进行比较，评估阿尔茨海默病（AD）患者的营养状况。
进行了一项横断面研究，纳入35名患阿尔茨海默病的老年人和43名对照老年人，采用微型营养评定法评估营养状况。
阿尔茨海默病组微型营养评定法的总分显示，71.42%存在营养不良风险，14.28%营养不良，14.25%营养状况正常。此外，对照组中79.06%的患者（n = 34）被归类为营养状况正常，20.93%（n = 9）存在营养不良风险。
结果强化了微型营养评定法可作为评估老年人，主要是阿尔茨海默病患者营养状况的合适工具这一观点，因为测量该人群的风险和营养状况是必不可少的。
