Malnutrition screening by Mini-Nutritional Assessment and Short-Form Mini-Nutritional Assessment in patients with Alzheimer's disease
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-635X.2010.03.004
- VernacularTitle:微型营养评定法和微型营养评定简表在老年痴呆患者营养筛查中的应用
- Author:
Caihua ZHANG
;
Yi XU
;
Hongxia ZHU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Alzheimer's disease;
Malnutrition;
Mini-Nutritional Assessment
- From:
Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition
2010;18(3):141-144
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the applicability of Mini-Nutritional Assessment(MNA),Short-Form Mini-Nutritional Assessment(MNA-SF)in the malnutrition screening of patients with Alzheimer's disease(AD).Methods MNA and MNA-SF were performed in 267 AD patients.The correlation between the screening results were compared.Results According to MNA,the rates of malnutrition,potential malnutrition,and normal nutritional status were 59.7%,20.9%,and 19.4%,respectively.The sensitivity was 73.4%and the specificity was 60.1%.According to MNA-SF,the rates of malnutrition and normal nutritional status were 70.4%and 29.6%.The sensitivity was 50.6%and the specificity was 92.4%.The screening results of these two tools were significantly correlated(r=0.924,P<0.01).Conclusions MNA and MNA-SF are reliable tools for evaluating the nutritional status of AD patients.While MNA-SF is more convenient and feasible,the combination of these two tools may be helpful.
