ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2023
Is food insecurity contributing to malnutrition in older adults in Switzerland? - A cross-sectional study.
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- Evaluation of the relationship between malnutrition (MNA-SF), food insecurity, and compliance with the mediterranean diet in community-dwelling older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Influential Attributes on Medical Expense for Korean Older Adults Based on Mental Accounting: Panel Data Analysis Using Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging Data.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Physician Perspectives on Malnutrition Screening, Diagnosis, and Management: A Qualitative Analysis.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Micronutrient malnutrition in geriatric patients.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Article
- Malnutrition-related mortality trends in older adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020.BMC medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Food insecurity has been defined as " Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of data from a structured survey in an elderly population of Switzerland. The data was assessed between June and August 2021 in the course of a 7-year phone call follow-up from the EFFORT trial, which included medical inpatients at nutritional risk from 2014 to 2018. A validated questionnaire (Six-Item Short Form 2012 of the U.S: Household Food Security Survey Module) was used to assess food security status. Results: Of the 433 included patients, 30 (6.9%) were food insecure. A significant association between food insecurity and age, governmental financial support and self-reported loneliness was found. When compared with the food secure group, there was a significant lower quality of life measured by the EQ-5D VAS. Conclusion: In an older Swiss population of patients at nutritional risk, food insecurity was named as a contributing factor for malnutrition in about 7% of patients, particularly younger individuals with financial support, and self-reported loneliness. In the assessment of malnutrition, physician and dieticians should ask for food insecurity and if detect take appropriate actions.
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