Assessment of Nutritional Status, and Subsequent Disease Risk, in the Elderly
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geriatric evaluation; memory; management of falls; nutrition; sarcopenia; frailty; prevention of loss of mobility
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Dear Colleagues,
Assessing the nutritional status of the elderly remains a major problem due to the frequency of undernutrition and its consequences.
Diagnosis of malnutrition is the cornerstone of its complex management. It is based on a set of phenotypic and morphological arguments, as proposed by a recent consensus. However, body composition measurement is difficult in current practice, requiring the development of alternative solutions. Evaluating a reduction in food intake, an early warning sign, is also difficult in daily practice.
The place of biology also deserves to be clarified for measuring inflammation (etiological criterion) and determining the severity of malnutrition and prognosis.
Given their frequency and consequences, the place of micronutrient deficiencies should also be considered in nutritional assessment.
The particularly harmful coexistence of obesity and malnutrition often leads to delayed diagnosis, although this situation becomes increasingly common with the obesity epidemic.
There is, therefore, scope for developing research to enrich the assessment and improve the level of proof.
This Special Issue will incorporate research on nutritional assessment in the elderly and subsequent malnutrition diseases.
All manuscripts, including original research from clinical trials and systematic reviews, are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Marc Bonnefoy
Dr. Clement Lahaye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutritional assessment
- biological criteria
- body composition and obesity
- food intake
- malnutrition and subsequent diseases
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