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BLUMBERG, JEFFREY - TUFTS-HNRCA |
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Submitted to: Book Chapter
Publication Type: Book / Chapter Publication Acceptance Date: 5/1/1995 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Not required. Technical Abstract: The adherence to particular dietary patterns by older as well as younger adults can affect the terminal years of the life span. Conversely, aging is accompanied by a variety of physiologic, psychologic, economic, and social changes that compromise nutritional status and/or affect nutritional requirements. The absence of validated age-adjusted values for anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical standards has always confounded an adequate nutritional assessment of elderly individuals and of the older adult population. Recent research approaches in nutrition have begun to focus on measures of nutrient intake and status not merely as normative means but as part of an effort to identify and predict the functional and health consequences of these assessments. Attention in this review is devoted to the impact of selected nutrients on body composition and on cognitive, immune, vascular, and visual functions and risk for chronic disease. |
