RT Journal Article
T1 Ultrasound Muscle Assessment and Nutritional Status in Institutionalized Older Adults: A Pilot Study.
A1 Mateos-Angulo, Alvaro
A1 Galan-Mercant, Alejandro
A1 Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
K1 Aging
K1 Functional capacity
K1 Muscle thickness
K1 Nutritional assessment
K1 Ultrasound
AB Muscle thickness, measured by ultrasonography, has been investigated for nutritional assessment in older adults, however the associations between muscle ultrasound parameters in the lower limb and nutritional status have not been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between muscle thickness echo intensity (EI), and nutritional status in home care residents. A cross sectional study was conducted involving 19 older adults from a home care in Malaga (Spain). We evaluated lower leg muscles by ultrasound, anthropometric data, physical function (measured by gait speed and the Short Physical Performance Battery), strength (handgrip and knee extensors strength) and nutritional status across the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Form (MNA-SF). We found that muscle thickness assessed by ultrasonography independently predicts nutritional status by MNA-SF and after adjusting for handgrip strength or age and sex. As secondary findings, we found relations between strength, functional capacity and the MNA-SF test. These results suggest that lower leg muscle ultrasound parameters could be used as a low-cost objective method for muscle evaluation in nutritional assessment in older adults.
PB MDPI
YR 2019
FD 2019-05-31
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/14067
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/14067
LA en
NO Mateos-Angulo A, Galán-Mercant A, Cuesta-Vargas AI. Ultrasound Muscle Assessment and Nutritional Status in Institutionalized Older Adults: A Pilot Study. Nutrients. 2019 May 31;11(6):1247
DS RISalud
RD Apr 17, 2025