Correlation between the frailty and nutritional status of elderly hospitalized patients

VernacularTitle:老年住院患者衰弱综合征与营养状况的相关性分析
Author: Lingyan CHEN ¹ ; Gaobo LOU ; Jiaojiao CHU ; Shanshan SHEN ; Hongju XIN ; Huilan GUAN
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1. 浙江医院老年综合示范病房
Keywords: Status of nutrition; Aged; Frailty
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2017;23(16):2121-2124
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the correlation between the frailty and nutritional status of the elderly hospitalized patients.Methods A total of 244 hospitalized patients were enrolled in this investigation. By using comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA),patients answered these questions together with experts (questionnaire assessment by professional instructions). Researchers input the result into computer at same time. Results Compared with normal patients,frailty patients were older (P<0.001),and had lower ability to take care of themselves (P<0.001),in other words,they had more demands from their families and carers in terms of medical care (P<0.01). In addition, frailty patients had higher risks of having depressive symptom (P=0.016),cognitive impairment (P<0.001), living function disability (P<0.001),as well as malnutrition (P<0.001). Regression analysis result showed a negative correlation between frailty and nutrition (P=0.005).Conclusions Malnutrition is closely related to frailty,and malnutrition patients and patients with risks of malnutrition were easily to acquire frailty.