title: [Nutrition-related risk factors in autonomous non-institutionalized adult elderly people].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine factors related to nutritional riskin autonomous non-institutionalized adult elder people.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study including 660 autonomous non-institutionalized adult elder people. Participants were assessed in 12 social centres (province of Valencia) and selected using stratified sampling by blocks.
  
  
  METHODS
  age 65 or over, living at home, functionally autonomous, having lived for more than 1 year in the province of Valencia, regularly visiting social centres and voluntary participation in the study. MNA is used for nutritional assessment and factors associated to nutritional status are collected by means of an ad-hoc survey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of the 660 study subjects, 48.33% are male and 51.67% are female, mean age is 74.3±6,57. 23.33% show malnutrition risk. Independent factors associated to malnutrition risk -with adjusted prevalence odds ratioare: absence of academic education (OR=2.29), feeling lonely (OR=2.34), following controlled diets (OR=0.55), reduced appetite (OR=2.56), number of fractions in daily intake (OR=0.66), suffering from xerostomia (OR=1.72), swallowing difficulties (OR=2.30), number of chronic diseases (OR=1.38) and having suffered from acute diseases during the last year (OR=2.03). An increase in BMI is associated with a good nutritional status (OR=0.85). These factors have allowed an accurate classification of 80% of the surveyed patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Numerous chronic diseases, recent acute diseases, non-controlled diets, xerostomia and swallowing difficulties, eating few times a day and little appetite, feelling lonely and lacking from academic education are factors allowing the prediction of malnutrition risk in adult elder people.
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Enfermería "La Fe". Universidad de Valencia. España.. montejano_rai@gva.es.
authors.forename: A Raimunda
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Montejano Lozoya
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad Ciencia de la Salud. Universidad de Alicante. España.. rosa.ferrer@ua.es.
authors.forename: Rosa M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ferrer Diego
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa Aplicadas y Calidad de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. España.. gclement@upv.es.
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Clemente Marín
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa Aplicadas y Calidad de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. España.. nalzamor@eio.upv.es.
authors.forename: Nieves
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Martínez-Alzamora
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad Ciencia de la Salud. Universidad de Alicante. España.. angela.sanjuan@ua.es.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sanjuan Quiles
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Enfermería "La Fe". Universidad de Valencia. España.. ferrer_esp@gva.es.
authors.forename: Esperanza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ferrer Ferrándiz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires