The study of malnutrition in elderly people of Kurdistan in 2011

Abstract

Population aging is increasing in nutritional status plays an important role in health and disease, older people and is considered the most important factor. Elderly disability due to the inability to chew disease, drugs and social isolation and loss of income and physical activity in are receiving inadequate dietary exposure study to evaluate the status of malnutrition in elderly Province cholera research priorities according to the Ministry of Health Food, which was announced to all universities were 1010 elderly in this study based on random cluster sampling in the province (Urban and rural) were selected and their nutritional status questionnaire for the elderly Iranian MNA standardized assessment was to assess the relationship between nutritional status and demographic factors parametric Kolmogorov Smirnov tests were used. 57 / 7% of the subjects in the city and 42 / 5% lived in rural areas in terms of gender and 45 / 4% male and 54 / 6% female. BMI equal to 21% of the people and less than 22 and 79% have a BMI over 22 have. between gender and BMI, there was a significant relationship so that73 /3% of women and 65/3% of men in the group were overweight .28/6% of older people with malnutrition and 51/9% were at risk of malnutrition among places of life, psychological problems, malnutrition, drugs exact a significant relationship existed. Conclusion: This study seems to take care intervention programs extensively by the health authorities and policymakers to prevent malnutrition in all age groups, especially the elderly appears necessary. Keywords: Elderly - Malnutrition - BMI