scholarly journals Moderate nutritional risk among community-dwelling Canadian older men in the Manitoba Follow-up Study

Author(s):  
Chantel T. Moodoo ◽  
Christina Lengyel
2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina O. Lengyel ◽  
Robert B. Tate ◽  
Dennis J. Bayomi

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 selfadministered 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 communitydwelling 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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Bonadias Gadelha ◽  
Silvia Gonçalves Ricci Neri ◽  
Martim Bottaro ◽  
Ricardo M. Lima

Radiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 282 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quirijn J. A. van den Bouwhuijsen ◽  
Mariana Selwaness ◽  
Hui Tang ◽  
Wiro J. Niessen ◽  
Albert Hofman ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzele Cristina Coelho Fabrício-Wehbe ◽  
Rosalina Aparecida Partezani Rodrigues ◽  
Vanderlei Jose Haas ◽  
Jack Roberto Silva Fhon ◽  
Marina Aleixo Diniz

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the association between frailty with hospitalization and institutionalization in a follow-up study of elderly residents. Method: the follow-up study was performed in 2008 and 2013 with elderly of both genders, aged 65 years and older who were living in the community-dwelling. The sampling procedure performed was probabilistic, with dual-stage clustering. In 2008, 515 elderly people were interviewed and, in 2013, 262. We used the socioeconomic and demographic data, self-reported morbidity, specific data of hospitalization and institutionalization. Frailty was measured by the Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS), and functional capacity through the Functional Independence Measure. Results: we found the mean gross EFS score was higher among resident elderly who were hospitalized and institutionalized and was statistically significant in both investigated years. Conclusion: the confirmation of association between frailty and hospitalization and institutionalization reinforces the importance of the subject, and highlights frailty as an important tool for risk estimates for these adverse events.


2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1802175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Baumert ◽  
Dominik Linz ◽  
Katie Stone ◽  
R. Doug McEvoy ◽  
Steve Cummings ◽  
...  

Respiratory frequency (fR) predicts in-hospital and short-term mortality in patients with a variety of pathophysiological conditions, but its predictive value for long-term cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in the general population is unknown. Here, we investigated the relationship between mean nocturnal fR and mortality in community-dwelling older men and women.We measured mean nocturnal fR during sleep from overnight polysomnography in 2686 men participating in the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study (MrOS) Sleep study and 406 women participating in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) to investigate the relationship between mean nocturnal fR and long-term cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.166 (6.1%) men in the MrOS cohort (8.9±2.6 years’ follow-up) and 46 (11.2%) women in the SOF cohort (6.4±1.6 years’ follow-up) died from cardiovascular disease. All-cause mortality was 51.2% and 26.1% during 13.7±3.7 and 6.4±1.6 years’ follow-up in the MrOS Sleep study and the SOF cohorts, respectively. Multivariable Cox regression analysis adjusted for significant covariates demonstrated that fR dichotomised at 16 breaths·min−1 was independently associated with cardiovascular mortality (MrOS: hazard ratio (HR) 1.57, 95% CI 1.14–2.15; p=0.005; SOF: HR 2.58, 95% CI 1.41–4.76; p=0.002) and all-cause mortality (MrOS: HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.04–1.32; p=0.007; SOF: HR 1.50, 95% CI 1.02–2.20; p=0.04).In community-dwelling older men and women, polysomnography-derived mean nocturnal fR ≥16 breaths·min−1 is an independent predictor of long-term cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Whether nocturnal mean fR can be used as a risk marker warrants further prospective studies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
Sirkku Lavonius ◽  
Marika Salminen ◽  
Tero Vahlberg ◽  
Raimo Isoaho ◽  
Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä ◽  
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