[Health status indicators in elderly persons receiving various amounts of carbohydrates in their food].

The authors studied factual nutrition and the health status in 272 practically healthy elderly persons aged 60 to 74 years. Depending on the content of carbohydrates in the food, they were divided into 2 groups. The first group comprised persons, in whose diets the carbohydrate component was either equal to 45% of the average daily caloric value or was lower; the second group comprised test subjects with this component amounting to 60% and even higher.