Estado nutricional y factores relacionados con la desnutrición en una residencia de ancianos

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RESUMEN Objetivo: Las personas de la tercera edad frágiles son un colectivo en riesgo de sufrir desnutrición. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir el estado nutricional de una residencia asistida de 136 plazas y analizar su relación con otras variables. Métodos: Estudio observacional descriptivo transversal sobre una muestra de 113 personas. Se recogieron las variables composición corporal del residente, estado de deterioro cognitivo, nutricional, tipo de desnutrición y alimentación (tipo de dieta, tratamiento nutricional, disfagia, anorexia y dependencia en la alimentación). Se realizaron comparaciones de medias mediante la prueba de la t de Student y comparación de proporciones mediante ꭕ2 de Pearson. Resultados: El riesgo de desnutrición encontrada fue del 31% (n = 35); de ellos, el 22% (n = 25) presentaba desnutrición según Gasull. El 92% (104) de los participantes del estudio presentaban algún síntoma o patología y solamente 18 (15,9%) personas no padecían deterioro cognitivo. El 65,5% (74) seguía una dieta basal/diabética y el 35,4% (48) necesitaba ayuda para comer. El deterioro cognitivo moderado-elevado y las dietas terapéuticas obtuvieron mayor proporción de casos de desnutrición según Gasull. Conclusión: El estado nutricional de la residencia se puede relacionar con la mayor complejidad que presentan los residentes (alto porcentaje de ellos con deterioro cognitivo moderado y grave y/u otras patologías) y con la calidad en la asistencia. La falta de asociación de desnutrición con el resto de las variables analizadas nos lleva a apoyar la hipótesis de que son múltiples factores los que interfieren en el estado nutricional de los adultos mayores.

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ABSTRACT Objective: elderly fragile people are a group at risk for malnutrition. Because of this, the study aimed to describe the nutritional status of an assisted residence of 136 beds and analyze the relationship between malnutrition and other variables. Methods: descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study on a sample of 113 people. Variables collected were body composition of resident, nutritional and cognitive impairment, type of malnutrition and feeding (type of diet, nutritional therapy, dysphagia, anorexia, and eating dependence). Comparison of means using the Student T test and compared proportions using Chi-square of Pearson were made. Results: The risk of malnutrition found was 31% (n = 35), of them, 22% (n = 25) of total residents were classified as Gasull malnutrition. 92% (104) of the participants of the study showed some symptoms or disease and only 18 (15.9%) were not suffering from cognitive impairment. The 65.5% (74) was at basal/diabetic diet and the 35.4% (48) needed help to eat. Moderate-high cognitive impairment and therapeutic diets showed a positive correlation with malnutrition according to Gasull cases. Conclusion: Nutritional state of the residence may be related with greater resident complexity (high percentage of them with moderate and severe cognitive impairment and/or other illnesses) and with the quality of assistance. The lack of association of malnutrition with the rest of the variables analyzed, leads us to support the hypothesis that multiple factors interfere in the nutritional status of elder adults.

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Jens Kondrup, Henrik Rasmussen, Ole Hamberg … (2003)

A system for screening of nutritional risk is described. It is based on the concept that nutritional support is indicated in patients who are severely ill with increased nutritional requirements, or who are severely undernourished, or who have certain degrees of severity of disease in combination with certain degrees of undernutrition. Degrees of severity of disease and undernutrition were defined as absent, mild, moderate or severe from data sets in a selected number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and converted to a numeric score. After completion, the screening system was validated against all published RCTs known to us of nutritional support vs spontaneous intake to investigate whether the screening system could distinguish between trials with a positive outcome and trials with no effect on outcome. The total number of randomized trials identified was 128. In each trial, the group of patients was classified with respect to nutritional status and severity of disease, and it was determined whether the effect of nutritional intervention on clinical outcome was positive or absent. Among 75 studies of patients classified as being nutritionally at-risk, 43 showed a positive effect of nutritional support on clinical outcome. Among 53 studies of patients not considered to be nutritionally at-risk, 14 showed a positive effect (P=0.0006). This corresponded to a likelihood ratio (true positive/false positive) of 1.7 (95% CI: 2.3-1.2). For 71 studies of parenteral nutrition, the likelihood ratio was 1.4 (1.9-1.0), and for 56 studies of enteral or oral nutrition the likelihood ratio was 2.9 (5.9-1.4). The screening system appears to be able to distinguish between trials with a positive effect vs no effect, and it can therefore probably also identify patients who are likely to benefit from nutritional support.

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