ArticleEuropean geriatric medicine2025
Associations of food insecurity with geriatric syndromes in the economically deprived community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the mediating role of malnutrition risk.
Article in European geriatric medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Reply to: Food insecurity and mortality in older adults: a prospective reconstruction.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Article
- Food insecurity and mortality in older adults: a prospective reconstruction.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Article
- Malnutrition, Frailty, and High Fall Risk in Older Adults: Examining Their Interactive Effects in a Cross-Sectional Study.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeFood insecurity is a vital social determinant of health. Among the economically deprived community-dwelling Chinese older adults, we examined the associations between levels of food insecurity and (1) various types and (2) the number of geriatric syndromes, and investigated the mediating role of malnutrition risk in these relationships.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted. 281 older adults aged ≥ 65 years with household income < 75% of the population median and participating in a food assistance program evaluation study in Hong Kong were included. Secondary data on food insecurity, malnutrition risk, possible sarcopenia, frailty, falls, and visual and hearing impairment were analyzed.
resultsThe mean (SD) age was 75.5 (7.1) years and 80.4% were female. The mean (SD) food insecurity score was 0.79 (1.56). The majority (88.0%) had at least one geriatric syndrome. Logistic regressions showed that every one-point increase in the food insecurity score was significantly associated with a higher malnutrition risk [adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR): 1.94, 95% CI 1.48-2.55], possible sarcopenia (aOR: 1.41, 95% CI 1.15-1.74), falls (aOR: 1.33, 95% CI 1.11-1.61), and frailty (aOR: 1.26, 95% CI 1.02-1.56), and a 43% greater risk of having one additional geriatric syndrome (aOR: 1.43, 95% CI 1.23-1.66). The proportions of association mediated by malnutrition risk were 48.6% for possible sarcopenia, 50.0% for falls, 91.3% for frailty, and 90.5% for the number of geriatric syndromes.
conclusionFood insecurity was associated with geriatric syndromes, and malnutrition risk mediated these relationships. Tackling food insecurity may combat geriatric syndromes in the community through both its direct and indirect associations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.