Nutritional patterns in elderly patients with dementia of Alzheimertype
E. Ferrario
Bok Engelsk 1996
| Utgitt | 1996
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| Omfang | Side 23- 27
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| Opplysninger | Body weight and some nutritional serum parameters (albumin, ureanitrogen, creatinine, glycemia, hemoglobin, total cholesterol,triglycerides, potassium) were analyzed in 44 subjects aged over 60in order to evaluate weight loss and its possible link with theprogression of dementia. Patients were consecutively admitted to ourDay Hospital with the complaint of psychogeriatric symptoms. They allwere living at home, no one presented risk factors for malnutritionand their cognitive impairment did not exceed the 4th degree of GDS(Global Deterioration Scale). Subjects were divided into two groupson the basis of diagnosis at discharge: (i) Possible or probabledementia of Alzheimer type (30 subjects, mean age 72.1 +/- 5.9years). (iii) Age-associated memory impairment (14 subjects, mean age73.6 +/- 6.2 years). One year later, a second control of body weightand nutritional parameters was performed. Differences between theselatter measures versus the initial values were not significant whenanalyzed in the total group of demented patients or in the subgroupswith different degree of cognitive impairment and physical activity.A possible hypothesis to explain the absence of differences amonggroups is that the caregivers were very carefully looking after allthe patients examined.
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