Publications by authors named "Kim T B Knoops"
Objective: We aimed to describe the difference in B-vitamin intake and in plasma B-vitamin and homocysteine concentrations before and after folic acid fortification, in relation to dietary patterns.
Design: The Normative Aging Study (NAS) is a longitudinal study on ageing. Between 1961 and 1970, 2280 male volunteers aged 21-80 years (mean 42 years) were recruited.
Background: It is hypothesis that in relatively healthy older people supplement usage can be consider as healthy life style habit and as such can positively influence longevity.
Aim Of The Study: To determine whether supplement use was associated with all-cause mortality in the participants of the SENECA study.
Methods: Baseline measurements were carried out in 1988/1989 among 75 to 80-year-old people living in 15 European small towns.
Body weight changes in elderly psychogeriatric nursing home residents.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
April 2005
Objective: This study was undertaken to identify predictors of body weight change in nursing home patients with possible to severe dementia.
Methods: For 24 weeks, 108 elderly residents of a nursing home were followed. Body weight was measured every 2 weeks.
Context: Dietary patterns and lifestyle factors are associated with mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer, but few studies have investigated these factors in combination.
Objective: To investigate the single and combined effect of Mediterranean diet, being physically active, moderate alcohol use, and nonsmoking on all-cause and cause-specific mortality in European elderly individuals.
Design, Setting, And Participants: The Healthy Ageing: a Longitudinal study in Europe (HALE) population, comprising individuals enrolled in the Survey in Europe on Nutrition and the Elderly: a Concerned Action (SENECA) and the Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Elderly (FINE) studies, includes 1507 apparently healthy men and 832 women, aged 70 to 90 years in 11 European countries.