Association between malnutrition, clinical parameters and health-related quality of life in elderly hospitalized patients with Parkinson's disease: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to explore the association between malnutrition, clinical parameters, and health-related quality of life in elderly hospitalized patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS:Cross-sectional study of 92 hospitalized elderly patients with PD (mean age 73.6 ± 6.7 years) without dementia. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) was used to evaluate nutritional status. Motor impairment and non-motor symptoms burden (Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale [MDS-UPDRS], Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire, and Hoehn & Yahr staging), depression (Becks Depression Inventory-II), and health-related quality of life (PD quality of life Questionnaire-39) were assessed. RESULTS:Every second patient was malnourished or at risk o

SUBMITTER: Gruber MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7197805 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature