2026-08-30T13:04:23Zhttps://repisalud.isciii.es/rest/oai/requestoai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/178722024-02-10T20:01:36Zcom_20.500.12105_15322com_20.500.12105_2051col_20.500.12105_16927col_20.500.12105_16985
Repisalud
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Mateos-Angulo, Alvaro
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Galán-Mercant, Alejandro
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Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
2024-02-10T20:01:36Z
2024-02-10T20:01:36Z
2019-05-31
10.3390/nu11061247
2072-6643
Nutrients
http://hdl.handle.net/10668/14067
31159255
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17872
Muscle thickness, measured by ultrasonography, has been investigated for nutritional assessment in older adults, however the associations between muscle ultrasound parameters in the lower limb and nutritional status have not been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between muscle thickness echo intensity (EI), and nutritional status in home care residents. A cross sectional study was conducted involving 19 older adults from a home care in Malaga (Spain). We evaluated lower leg muscles by ultrasound, anthropometric data, physical function (measured by gait speed and the Short Physical Performance Battery), strength (handgrip and knee extensors strength) and nutritional status across the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Form (MNA-SF). We found that muscle thickness assessed by ultrasonography independently predicts nutritional status by MNA-SF and after adjusting for handgrip strength or age and sex. As secondary findings, we found relations between strength, functional capacity and the MNA-SF test. These results suggest that lower leg muscle ultrasound parameters could be used as a low-cost objective method for muscle evaluation in nutritional assessment in older adults.
eng
Aging
Functional capacity
Muscle thickness
Nutritional assessment
Ultrasound
Ultrasound Muscle Assessment and Nutritional Status in Institutionalized Older Adults: A Pilot Study.
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