The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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J Nutr Health Aging · Jan 2010
Estimated height from knee-height in Caucasian elderly: implications on nutritional status by mini nutritional assessment.
To investigate if the use of estimated height (EH) by currently available prediction formulas might affect the screening and outcome prediction attitudes of both the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and its short-form version (MNA-SF). ⋯ In Italian elderly, height prediction by nationally representative equations for white Americans should be preferred to that by ethnic-specifc formula. However, the use of both models does not seem to affect nutritional screening and outcome prediction by MNA and MNA-SF.