Title: Reply – Letter to the editor – Malnutrition and frailty in community dwelling older adults living in a rural setting
Abstract: Many thanks for your valuable comments. Malnutrition increases frailty among older adults: How?Clinical NutritionVol. 35Issue 4PreviewWe read the article by Boulos et al. [1], aiming to show the relationship between frailty and malnutrition among older adults living in a rural setting, with great interest. In this well designed and written study, the authors showed that malnutrition rate was higher in the participants with frailty than without and malnutrition was found to be an independently correlate for being frail. When analyzing this hypothesis, it would be more appropriate to select the participants in each group to be similar among the age, gender and other baseline characteristics those might also have an affect on the prevalence of malnutrition. Full-Text PDF Malnutrition and frailty in community dwelling older adults living in a rural settingClinical NutritionVol. 35Issue 1PreviewMalnutrition and frailty are frequent and serious conditions within the geriatric population. Both are of multifactorial origin and linked to adverse outcomes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships between these two concepts in a representative sample of rural elderly Lebanese with a high prevalence of malnutrition. Full-Text PDF
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-01
Language: en
Type: letter
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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