Nutritional Status Among Older Adults. Risk Factors and Consequences of Malnutrition

NCT01161342 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: LTV-1211142
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 1,771
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition among older adults admitted to hospital and to analyse predictive factors for malnutrition. Further, the aim was to analyse the association between nutritional status and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. The hypothesis is that malnourished patients have a higher mortality then well-nourished patients after three years.

Conditions

Malnutrition

Keywords

Malnutrition; Aged; Aged 80 and over; Prevalence; Mortality

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Nutritional status according to the screening instrument Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)

  \[The 18 questions in the MNA instrument are weighted, and the threshold values of the instrument categorize patients into three nutritional status groups: well-nourished (MNA score 24-30), at risk of malnutrition (MNA score 17-23.5), or malnourished (MNA score \<17).

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• All-cause mortality

  Survival was calculated from the date of the MNA screening to the date of death.

  All-cause mortality was analyzed after median 3.5 years.

• Cause-specific mortality

  Survival was calculated from the date of the MNA screening to the date of cause-specific death.

  Cause-specific mortality was analyzed after median 4.7 years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

The included sample comprised 1771 patients 65 years and older, consecutively admitted during fifteen months to two internal medicine wards (n = 706), two surgical wards (n = 681), and one orthopaedic ward (n = 384) at the Central hospital in Västerås, Sweden.

You may qualify if:

• Patients 65 years or older

You may not qualify if:

• unable to communicate and no relative could anwer the questions (n = 356)
• receiving palliative care (n = 44)
• impossible to measure height or weight (n = 22)
• miscellanious (n = 71)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Uppsala University: lead
• Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden: collaborator

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Malnutrition

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Study Officials

• Leif Bergkvist, Professor

  The Center for Clinical research, the County Council of Vestmanland/Uppsala University, Sweden

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Med.lic.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 12, 2010
• First Posted: July 13, 2010
• Study Start: March 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2009
• Study Completion: May 1, 2009
• Last Updated: August 26, 2015

Record last verified: 2011-05