Malnutrition is Associated with Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia in Older Women with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

• Published in: Nutrients Vol. 11; no. 8; p. 1951
• Main Authors: Kimura, Ai, Sugimoto, Taiki, Kitamori, Kazuya, Saji, Naoki, Niida, Shumpei, Toba, Kenji, Sakurai, Takashi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 20.08.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; aggression; Aging; Alzheimer disease; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Alzheimer's disease; analysis of covariance; Apathy; at-risk population; Behavior; Body mass index; Caregivers; cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; cognitive disorders; Cognitive Dysfunction - psychology; Dementia; Dementia - psychology; Disease prevention; elderly; Energy intake; factor analysis; Female; Geriatrics; Gerontology; Humans; Malnutrition; Malnutrition - complications; Malnutrition - epidemiology; Malnutrition - psychology; Marital status; Medical imaging; memory; Mortality; Nutrition Assessment; Nutritional Status; patients; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; women; Japan; BPSD; dementia; nutritional status; mild cognitive impairment; Alzheimer’s disease

We examined the nutritional status and its association with behavioral psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD) among 741 memory clinic patients (normal cognition (NC), 152; mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 271; early-stage Alzheimer disease (AD), 318). Nutritional status and BPSD were assessed using...