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- Title
Nutritional Risk in Community-dwelling Older Men: The Manitoba Follow-up Study
- Authors
LENGYEL, CHRISTINA O.; TATE, ROBERT B.; BAYOMI, DENNIS J.
- Abstract
Purpose: The role of nutrition in older men’s health and successful aging has been inadequately studied. We examined the relationships among nutritional risk, self-rated health, and successful aging in community-dwelling Canadian older men. Methods: The surviving cohort of the Manitoba Follow-up Study (n=690, mean age = 86.8 years) were sent a self-administered nutrition survey in December 2007. The survey consisted of the Seniors in the Community: Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition, version II (SCREEN II), a validated tool for assessing nutritional risk of cognitively intact community-living older adults, and questions about successful aging and health. Results: Of the 553 surveys returned (80% response), 522 with complete SCREEN II data were included in the analysis. Forty-four percent of respondents were at high nutritional risk, 24% were at moderate risk, and 32% were at low risk. Significant relationships were found between nutritional risk and self-rated health (P<0.0001) and successful aging (P=0.008), with greater nutritional risk associated with lower self-ratings of health and successful aging. Higher use of prescription medication was related to greater nutritional risk (P=0.004). Conclusions: Nutritional screening programs for community-dwelling older men are warranted as two-thirds of the study participants were at nutritional risk. Identifying older men at nutritional risk is a critical step in the process of nutritional assessment, and subsequent nutrition interventions and followup are required to prevent further health decline.
- Subjects
MANITOBA; NUTRITION disorders; GERIATRIC nutrition; AGING; ATTITUDE (Psychology); DRUG therapy; CONFIDENCE intervals; HEALTH attitudes; HEALTH status indicators; LONGITUDINAL method; MEN'S health; MULTIVARIATE analysis; NUTRITIONAL assessment; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH funding; SELF-evaluation; STATISTICS; LOGISTIC regression analysis; STATISTICAL significance; BODY mass index; INDEPENDENT living; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; OLD age; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice & Research, 2014, Vol 75, Issue 2, p84
- ISSN
1486-3847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3148/75.2.2014.84