Association of difficulties in accessing foods with dietary variety or locomotive syndrome among community-dwelling Japanese older adults

This study aimed to elucidate the association between subjective problems of difficulties in accessing foods and dietaryvariety or locomotive syndrome among the community-dwelling Japanese older adult population.　As a result, 24.5％ of thesubjects had a subjective problems of food access, and they we...

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Published inBULLETIN OF KIRYU UNIVERSITY Vol. 31; pp. 15 - 23
Main Authors Tachibana, Yohko, Osawa, Ayako, Takahashi, Tosei
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published Kiryu university, Kiryu university junior college 2020
Subjects
accessing foods
dietary variety score
locomotive syndrome
Older adult
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Summary:This study aimed to elucidate the association between subjective problems of difficulties in accessing foods and dietaryvariety or locomotive syndrome among the community-dwelling Japanese older adult population.　As a result, 24.5％ of thesubjects had a subjective problems of food access, and they were high score of dietary variety score, and Locomo 25 which isone of the diagnosis tests of locomotive syndrome.　In addition, it was clarified that it is related to health indicators such asobesity and high abdominal circumference in men, and high diastolic blood pressure in women.　From the distribution of dietaryvariety score, it can be seen that the dietary variety of the elderly are not uniform.　It was suggested that the importanceof public nutrition policy to spend a lifetime in familiar area.
ISSN:2186-4748
2435-7049
DOI:10.34506/bku.31.0_15