Associação do estado nutricional com capacidade cognitiva, sexo e idade em idosos residentes na cidade de Maringá/PR / Association of nutritional status with cognitive ability, gender and age in elderly residents in the city of Maringá / PR

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2009

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Association of nutritional status with cognitive ability, gender and age in elderly residents in the city of Maringá / PR. [thesis]. São Paulo (BR): Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo; 2009. Introduction Studies evaluating the nutritional state show that elderly individuals present nutritional risk that can be associated to cognitive capacity, sex and age. Objective Verify the association of the nutritional state with the cognitive capacity, sex and age in elderly people living in the city of Maringa/PR. Methods It was an associating, transversal and domicile based study, with primary data collection, developed with elderly people ( 60 years old or more) from Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa (PPI) at the parish Santo Antonio de Padua in the city of Maringa/PR. The variables analyzed were: cognitive capacity, nutritional state, sex and age. The cognitive capacity was evaluated through the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) and the nutritional state according to the nutritional indicator arm muscle area (AMA). To verify the association between the groupings, a Chisquare (2) and the Exact Text of Fisher were used. The difference between the variables and the groupings were verified by the tests Wilcoxon-Mann- Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis. Results 214 elderly people participated in the research (69.2 per cent women). Considering the nutritional state, 48.6 per cent presented adequate nutritional state. The women and the 80 years old group presented more proportion of elderly people with adequate nutritional state (52.7 per cent and 53.7 per cent, respectively). Association statistically meaningful was observed only between the nutritional state and sex. In relation to the cognitive capacity, 65.4 per cent of the elderly people presented cognitive disturb (CD) (72.9 per cent female gender). Elders without CD presented more proportion of elderly people with adequate nutritional state (52.7 per cent), when compared with elderly people with CD (46.4 per cent). The women without CD presented more proportion of elderly people with adequate nutritional state (56.5 per cent) in relation to the women with CD (51.0 per cent), and to men with (34.2 per cent) and without CD (46.4 per cent). The 80 year old group of elderly people without CD presented more proportion of elderly people with adequate nutritional state. The statistical analysis showed no meaningful association between the nutritional state of elderly people, with and without CD, with cognitive capacity, sex, and age group. Conclusion the elderly people studied presented nutritional risk; nevertheless, the nutritional state is associated only to sex. This association did not repeat when the elderly people were divided according to their cognitive capacity

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nutritional state cognitive capacity idoso capacidade cognitiva elderly people estado nutricional

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