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The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) after 20 years of research and clinical practice

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2007

Marion Secher ,
Maria E. Soto ,
Hélène Villars ,
Gabor Abellan van Kan  and
Bruno Vellas
Marion Secher
Affiliation:
Gérontôpole Department of Geriatric Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, France
Maria E. Soto
Affiliation:
Gérontôpole Department of Geriatric Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, France
Hélène Villars
Affiliation:
Gérontôpole Department of Geriatric Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, France
Gabor Abellan van Kan*
Affiliation:
Gérontôpole Department of Geriatric Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, France
Bruno Vellas
Affiliation:
Gérontôpole Department of Geriatric Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, France Inserm, U558, University Toulouse III, F-31073, Toulouse, France
*
Address for correspondence: Gabor Abellan van Kan, Gérontôpole Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital Toulouse, 170 avenue de Casselardit, 31059 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
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Nutritional assessment in older people to detect malnutrition or risk of malnutrition is essential to avoid adverse nutrition-related outcomes. Poor nutritional status appears to be a major contributing factor for poor prognosis in malnourished individuals. Nowadays, nutritional assessment is considered to be one of the domains which should be evaluated in comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). CGA is a comprehensive assessment tool with the capacity of detecting impairments in older people and, at the same time, suggest interventions. Although many assessment tools are proposed, those used in CGA are not widely agreed. After 20 years of clinical practice and research, the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) seems to be the tool most widely accepted by health carers and patients for the assessment of nutritional impairment in CGA.

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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , November 2007 , pp. 293 - 310
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