[Nutritional status and associated factors in ambulatory elderly patients].

Objective: To analyze the nutritional status (NS) of patients older than 65 years and establish their relationship with sociodemographic and health variables.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study in patients older than 65 years.

Location: 3 health centers.

Validation (in Spanish) of the Mini Nutritional Assessment survey to assess the nutritional status of patients over 65 years of age.

Aim: To validate the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) in a Spanish population over 65 years of age with varying degrees of independence.

Design: This cross-sectional validation study used the Chang nutritional assessment method as a reference test.

Participants: 248 subjects (72.