The mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and its use in grading the nutritional state of elderly patients

Vellas, Bruno; Guigoz, Y.; Garry, Philip J.; Nourhashémi, Fati; Bennahum, David A.; Lauque, S.; Albarède, J. L.

doi:10.1016/s0899-9007(98)00171-3

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“…A comparison between the number of subjects who were classified as possibly undernourished according to the MNA short form and the number so Table 1 Questions of the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA): short form (screening) and the full version (18,19) , and frequency distribution (in parentheses) concerning the eighteen MNA questions in a community-dwelling elderly Spanish population (n 5 22 007) Consumes meat, fish or poultry every day? Greater than 3 kg (6?6 lb) 5 0 (6?1 %)…”

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Nutritional assessment interpretation on 22 007 Spanish community-dwelling elders through the Mini Nutritional Assessment test

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Garcia

Ansorena

et al. 2009

Public Health Nutr.

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Objectives: To evaluate the prevalence of undernutrition among communitydwelling elderly people in Spain using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and to analyse its distribution according to age, gender and residence region. Design: Cross-sectional study assessing the nutritional status of elderly persons through both the short form and the full version of the MNA test. Setting: Pharmacy offices across the whole country (Spain) were enrolled to recruit participants. Subjects: A total of 22 007 participants (8014 men and 13 993 women), aged $65 years, assessed during the last two months of 2005. Results: According to MNA screening, 4?3 % subjects were classified as undernourished (MNA score ,17) and 25?4 % were at risk of undernutrition (MNA score $17 to #23?5). The MNA short form correlated strongly with the full MNA version (r 5 0?85). MNA total score was significantly higher in men than in women (25?4 (SD 3?7) v. 24?6 (SD 3?9); P , 0?001) and lower in the oldest than in the youngest subjects (P , 0?001) in both genders. According to regional distribution, the best nutritional status was found in elderly from the north of Spain excluding the north-west area. Conclusions: Female gender, older age and living in the south half or northwest of the country were associated with higher rates of undernutrition among community-dwelling elderly persons in Spain.

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Nutritional assessment interpretation on 22 007 Spanish community-dwelling elders through the Mini Nutritional Assessment test

Cuervo

Garcia

Ansorena

et al. 2009

Public Health Nutr.

135

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“…The questions were adapted from the Mini Nutritional Assessment (Vellas et al 1999) to assess body weight, food intake, mode of nourishment, and current consumption of food groups, including dairy products (milk, yogurt, and cheese), meat, fish, or poultry, orange/yellow vegetables, green vegetables, citrus fruit and juice, non-citrus fruit and juice, and oral liquid supplements. The total fruit intake was estimated by summing the two fruit categories.…”

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Dietary differences between centenarians residing in communities and in skilled nursing facilities: the Georgia Centenarian Study

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Davey

Hausman³

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The purpose of this study was to examine the dietary habits among centenarians residing in community settings (n=105) and in skilled nursing facilities (n=139). The sample was a population-based multi-ethnic sample of adults aged 98 years and older (N=244) from northern Georgia in the US. Compared to centenarians in skilled nursing facilities, those residing in the community were more than twice as likely to be able to eat without help and to receive most of their nourishment from typical foods, but they had a lower frequency of intake of all of the food groups examined, including dairy, meat, poultry and fish, eggs, green vegetables, orange/yellow vegetables, citrus fruit or juice, non-citrus fruit or juice, and oral liquid supplements. A food summary score was created (the sum of the meeting recommendations for five food groups). In multiple regression analyses, the food summary scores were positively associated with residing in a nursing facility and negatively associated with eating without help and receiving most nourishment from typical foods. These data suggest that centenarians residing in communities may have limited access to foods that are known to provide nutrients essential to health and well-being. Also, centenarians who are able to eat without help and/or who eat mainly typical foods may have inadequate intakes of recommended food groups. Given the essential role of foods and nutrition to health and well-being throughout life, these findings require further exploration through the detailed dietary analyses of centenarians living in various settings.

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“…Exclusion criteria included co-morbidities that could interfere with the immune system (e.g., AIDS, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus), use of immunosuppressive drugs (e.g., corticosteroids), smoking, and alcohol abuse. Participants underwent clinical evaluation by a physician and answered the following questionnaires: Global Depression Score (Yesavage et al 1982), Mini Nutrition Assessment (Vellas et al 1999), Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE] (Brucki et al 2003), and Quality of Life SF-36 (Ciconelli et al 1999). The study was approved by the Hospital das Clínicas Review Board (#0135/11), and all subjects signed an informed consent form.…”

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Moderate and intense exercise lifestyles attenuate the effects of aging on telomere length and the survival and composition of T cell subpopulations

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Araújo

Fernandes

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Studies indicate that exercise might delay human biological aging, but the effects of long-term exercise on T cell function are not well known. We tested the hypothesis that moderate or intense exercise lifestyle may attenuate the effects of aging on the telomere length and the survival and composition of T cell subpopulations. Elderly (65-85 years) with intense training lifestyle (IT, n = 15), moderate training lifestyle (MT, n = 16), and who never trained (NT, n = 15) were studied. Although the three groups presented the ageassociated contraction of the TCD4 + /TCD8 + naïve compartments and expansion of the memory compartments, both training modalities were associated with lower proportion of terminally differentiated (CD45RA + CCR7 neg ) TCD4 + and TCD8 + cells, although among the latter cells, the reduction reached statistical significance only with IT. MT was associated with higher proportion of central memory TCD4 + cells, while IT was associated with higher proportion of effector memory TCD8 + cells. However, both training lifestyles were unable to modify the proportion of senescent (CD28 neg ) TCD8 + cells. Telomeres were longer in T cells in both training groups; with IT, telomere length increased mainly in TCD8 + cells, whereas with MT, a modest increase in telomere length was observed in both TCD8 + and TCD4 + cells. Reduced commitment to apoptosis of resting T cells, as assessed by caspase-3 and Bcl-2 expression, was seen predominantly with IT.

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The mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and its use in grading the nutritional state of elderly patients

Cited by 1,680 publications

References 16 publications

Nutritional assessment interpretation on 22 007 Spanish community-dwelling elders through the Mini Nutritional Assessment test

Nutritional assessment interpretation on 22 007 Spanish community-dwelling elders through the Mini Nutritional Assessment test

Dietary differences between centenarians residing in communities and in skilled nursing facilities: the Georgia Centenarian Study

Moderate and intense exercise lifestyles attenuate the effects of aging on telomere length and the survival and composition of T cell subpopulations

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