Zarina Nahar Kabir|Tamanna Ferdous|Tommy Cederholm|Masuma Akter Khanam|Kim Streatfied|Åke Wåhlin
Mini Nutritional Assessment of rural elderly people in Bangladesh: the impact of demographic, socio-economic and health factors
Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet|Uppsala University|Karolinska Institutet|International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research|International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research|Karolinska Institutet|Stockholm University
abstract objective stating millennium development goals united nations aims halve malnutrition around world 2015 nutritional status elderly population lowincome countries seldom focused upon present study aimed evaluate magnitude malnutrition among elderly population rural bangladesh design setting data collection multidimensional crosssectional study communitybased elderly people aged 60 years conducted rural area bangladesh subjects 850 randomly selected elderly individuals 625 participated home interviews complete nutritional information available 457 individuals mean age 69 8 years 55 female nutritional status assessed using adapted form mini nutritional assessment mna including body mass index bmi age sex education household expenditure food selfreported health problems investigated potential predictors nutritional status results bmi lt 185 kg 2 indicating chronic energy deficiency found 50 population mna revealed prevalence 26 proteinenergy malnutrition 62 risk malnutrition health problems rather age negative impact nutritional status level education food expenditure directly associated nutritional status conclusion order reduce world hunger half coming decade important recognise substantial proportion elderly population particularly lowincome countries undernourished