An increasing number of winners have had B.M.I.'s under 18.5, which is the World Health Organization's standard for undernutrition.
By advocating to policymakers, NGOs, donors and UN agencies and training humanitarian and health workers involved in nutrition programmes, as well as by building evidence of older people's vulnerability for undernutrition and developing guidelines for interventions, the development community can bring the right of older people to proper nutrition to the attention of the humanitarian community.
Young age, planned admission and chronic disease appeared as risk factors for undernutrition.
We have shown that impaired level of health-related quality of life is an important determinant of risk for undernutrition.
Stunting low height for age — in particular, is used as a key indicator for undernutrition as it is caused by chronic undernourishment.
Calculated sensitivity and specificity values for NUFFE-NO, with MNA as a criterion and receiver operating characteristic curves with areas 0.79 and 0.80, showed appropriate cutoff points for measuring low, medium, and high risk for undernutrition.
to evaluate the accuracy of nursing home (NH) staff in documenting two Minimum Data Set (MDS) items that are used to identify residents at risk for undernutrition, low oral intake and food complaints, using standardized observation and interview assessment protocols implemented by research staff.
A strong position for nutrition is to be located with hunger in a "vertical" goal with an additional "horizontal" goal which places nutrition-specific indicators alongside nutrition-relevant indicators in new goal buckets, with placement driven by the UNICEF conceptual framework for undernutrition.
We classified children according to the WHO definitions for undernutrition.
Several different tools have been developed to screen for undernutrition.
In the nutritional screening, 69% were found to be at medium or high risk for undernutrition and association was found between risk for undernutrition and perceived ill health.
