Serum biomarkers associated with malnutrition and nutritional risk in elderly primary care patients: A cross-sectional study from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine the ability of ferritin, haemoglobin, albumin and total cholesterol to identify nutritional risk and malnutrition among elderly primary care patients.

Keywords

• elderly patients
• biomarkers
• malnutrition
• nutritional status
• starejši bolniki
• biološki označevalci
• podhranjenost
• stanje prehranjenosti