Modern scientific data indicate the widespread use in European countries of questioning in assessing the nutritional status of patients. The use of questionnaires in medical practice allows the doctor to reduce the time to collect anamnesis, to place emphasis on building a further algorithm of diagnosis and treatment. The article is devoted to the study of the nutritional status of elderly people in the city of Voronezh and the Region; determining the risk of malnutrition syndrome. The work involved 166 people aged 60 to 89 years. The average age of the respondents was 69.4±7.2 years. The main part of the participants consisted of urban population, the predominance of urban population over rural was more than 2 fold (67.5 to 32.5% respectively). 72.3% of respondents were female, 27.7% - male. At the same time, the share of urban population among female participants was almost 2 fold more than in rural areas (64.2 to 35.8%). For men, the urban population was more than 3 fold than the rural population (76.1 to 23.9%). Methods of registration of anthropometric data, collection of anamnesis and data from the outpatient card, questioning have been used in the work. A questionnaire «Mini Nutritional Assessment» (MNA) have been used for the evaluation of nutrition. Study design: a retrospective study. In the course of the work it was determined that only 1.8% of the surveyed patients have the syndrome of malnutrition. However, the risk of its development was revealed in 46.6% of patients. Older people living in the city had a statistically significantly higher risk of developing malnutrition (p<0.05) than the villagers.
Keywords: body mass index; elderly; nutritional assessment; nutritional status; protein-energy malnutrition.
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