Vitamin D Status and Muscle Function Among Adolescent and Young Swimmers.

Impaired muscle function has been coupled to vitamin D insufficiency in young women and in elderly men and women. Those living at Northern latitudes are at risk for vitamin D insufficiency due to low sun exposure which may be more pronounced among elite swimmers because of their indoor training schedules. We aimed to examine vitamin D status among young elite swimmers and evaluate the association between vitamin D status and muscle strength.

[Focus on nutrition improves the effect of rehabilitation in geriatric patients].

As a consequence of the loss of physical function more than half of the geriatric patients are discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan. Only a few patients are, however, discharged with a nutritional rehabilitation plan. Data suggest that about 60% of the geriatric patients who are discharged with a physical rehabilitation plan never start the rehabilitation, often due to readmissions.

Multidisciplinary nutritional support for undernutrition in nursing home and home-care: A cluster randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the effect of multidisciplinary nutritional support for undernutrition in older adults in nursing home and home-care identified with the validated Eating Validation Scheme (EVS).

Methods: An 11 wk cluster randomized trial with a home-care (3 clusters) or nursing home (3 clusters) setting as the unit of randomization. Before starting the study, a train-the-trainer course was performed to educate the nutrition coordinators.

Follow-up home visits with registered dietitians have a positive effect on the functional and nutritional status of geriatric medical patients after discharge: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the additional benefits of individualized nutritional counselling by a registered dietitian in geriatric patients' home after discharge from hospital, in relation to risk of re-admissions, functional status, nutritional status, use of social services and mortality.

Design: Twelve-week single-blind randomized controlled study.

Setting And Subjects: Geriatric medical patients (65+ years) at nutritional risk.

Study protocol: follow-up home visits with nutrition: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Geriatric patients are at high risk of re-admission after discharge. Pre-existing nutritional risk amongst these patients is of primary concern, with former nutritional intervention studies being largely ineffective. None of these studies has included individual dietary counselling by a registered dietician or has considered competing medical conditions in the participants.