Comparison of Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 and Subjective Global Assessment Form as Short Nutrition Assessment Tools in Older Hospitalized Adults.

The aim of the present study was to compare two widely recommended short nutrition assessment tools-Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and Subjective Global Assessment Form (SGA)-with other Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) measurements. The study included 622 consecutively hospitalized older subjects, aged 81.7 ± 7.

The association between platelet indices, cognitive screening tests and functional dependence screening questionnaires in hospitalized older people.

Purpose: Activated platelets have been suggested to play an important role in the pathogenesis of dementia. Recent studies have shown contradictory results concerning the relationship between blood platelet indices and cognitive performance.

Methods: This cross-sectional study evaluates the relationship between basic platelet indices and cognitive and functional performance of 754 men and women, aged 60-105 years old, admitted to the geriatric hospital unit.

Relationship of muscle function to circulating myostatin, follistatin and GDF11 in older women and men.

Background: Myostatin, its inhibitor follistatin, and growth/differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) have been proposed as factors that could potentially modify biological aging. The study aimed to test whether there is a relationship between these plasma circulating proteins and muscle strength, power and optimal shortening velocity (υ) of older adults.

Methods: The cross-sectional study included 56 women and 45 men aged 60 years and older.

Atherogenic Indices Are Increased in Elderly Patients with Unipolar Depression-Case-Control Analysis.

Background: Blood lipids are widely used in monitoring the risk of cardiovascular diseases; however, atherogenic indices are more precise markers. The aim of the study was to determine differences in atherogenic indices in elderly patients with unipolar depression (DEP) compared with nondepressed elderly patients (nonDEP) using case-control analysis.

Methods: Fasting serum lipid profiles were measured in 564 (depressed: n = 282, nondepressed: n = 282, 83.

Inappropriate nutrients intake is associated with lower functional status and inferior quality of life in older adults with depression.

Objectives: The study is a case-control analysis of whether depression impairs physical and cognitive functioning and quality of life, and whether there is a relationship between nutrient deficiencies and these adverse changes.

Patients And Methods: A total of 130 older subjects participated in the study: 65 with diagnosed depression (16 men and 49 women) and 65 age- and sex-matched controls without depression. All patients underwent comprehensive geriatric assessment.