Prevalence of malnutrition and analysis of related factors in elderly patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 74; no. 6; pp. 871 - 875
• Main Authors: Li, Tao, Zhang, Yalan, Gong, Cheng, Wang, Jing, Liu, Bao, Shi, Li, Duan, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/308/174; 692/499; Aged; Aged patients; Aged, 80 and over; Albumin; Albumins; Analysis; Anthropometry; Betacoronavirus; Body mass index; Body size; China - epidemiology; Clinical Nutrition; Comorbidity; Coronavirus Infections - complications; Coronavirus Infections - physiopathology; Coronavirus Infections - virology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Female; Geriatric Assessment; Geriatrics; Hemoglobin; Humans; Inpatients - statistics & numerical data; Internal Medicine; Lymphocytes; Male; Malnutrition; Malnutrition - epidemiology; Malnutrition - virology; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Medicine, Experimental; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Nutrition; Nutrition Assessment; Nutritional Status; Older people; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral - complications; Pneumonia, Viral - physiopathology; Pneumonia, Viral - virology; Prevalence; Product/Service Evaluations; Public Health; Regression analysis; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; SARS-CoV-2; Statistical analysis; China; Wuhan China

Background/objectives To evaluate the prevalence of malnutrition and its related factors in elderly patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Subjects/methods In a cross-sectional study, we evaluated the nutritional status of elderly inpatients with COVID-19 using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA)...