Social and Demographic Predictors of Nutritional Risk: Cross-sectional Analyses From the UAB Study of Aging II.

Auteur(s) :
Locher JL., Buys DR., Kennedy RE., Williams CP., Brown CJ.
Date :
Déc, 2017
Source(s) :
Family & community health. #41:2 p33-45
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Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State (Dr Buys); Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care (Drs Kennedy, Brown, and Locher and Ms Williams), Department of Health Care Organizations and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Dr Locher); and Atlanta Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama (Dr Brown).

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Social factors may disparately affect access to food and nutritional risk among older adults by race and gender. This study assesses these associations using the Mini Nutritional Assessment among 414 community-dwelling persons 75+ years of age in Alabama. Descriptive analyses on the full sample and by African American men, African American women, white men, and white women showed that mean scores for the full Mini Nutritional Assessment differed by groups, with African American men and African American women having the highest nutritional risk. Multivariable analyses indicated that social factors affect nutritional risk differently by race and gender. Nutritional risk interventions are warranted for older adults.

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