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Nutritional assessment interpretation on 22,007 Spanish community-dwelling elders through the Mini Nutritional
M Cuervo1, A García, D Ansorena
1Department of Food Sciences, Nutrition, Physiology and Toxicology, University of Navarra, Irunlarrea 1, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain.
Objectives:
To evaluate the prevalence of undernutrition among community-dwelling 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 >or=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 >or=17 to
Conclusions:
Female gender, older age and living in the south half or north-west of the country were associated with higher rates of undernutrition among community-dwelling elderly persons in Spain.
