Survey on perceived food and nutritional support quality.

<p>Survey on perceived food and nutritional support quality.</p

Clinical conditions according to nutritional status (MNA®).

<p>Legend: MNA®: Mini Nutritional Assessment; Comorbidity: Geriatric Index of Comorbidity³⁹ and Index of Disease Severity⁴⁰; Painful symptoms: modified Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire⁴¹.</p

Nutritional status (MNA®) and social-cultural characteristics.

<p>Legend: MNA<b>®</b>: Mini Nutritional Assessment.</p

Demographic, clinical, nutritional and functional characteristics of the study participants.

<p>Legend: MNA<b>®</b>: Mini Nutritional Assessment; BMI: Body Mass Index; GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale; SPMSQ: Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire; IADL Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; ADL: Activities of Daily Living.</p

Anthropometric parameters and nutritional status according to MNA®.

<p>Legend: MNA<b>®</b>: Mini Nutritional Assessment; BMI: Body Mass Index; CC: calf circumference; TSF: Triceps Skinfold Thickness; AC: Arm Circumference; MAC: Muscle arm circumference.</p>*<p>The weighted mean of 10^th percentile values for Italian samples enrolled in the SENECA study were used as lower limits of normality for anthropometric parameters (Euronut SENECA Investigators (1991) Nutritional status – anthropometry. Eur J Clin Nutr 45: S3).</p

Perceived quality of nutritional care related to nutritional status (MNA®).

<p>Average score obtained for questions 1–8: answers are quoted from 1 to 7 in a Likert rating scale: strongly agree = 1, agree = 2, slightly agree = 3, do not know = 4, not very agree = 5, not completely agree = 6, strongly disagree = 7.</p><p>Legend: MNA<b>®</b>: Mini Nutritional Assessment.</p

Laboratory parameters according to nutritional status (defined by MNA®).

<p>Legend: MNA<b>®</b>: Mini Nutritional Assessment; RBC: red blood cells; Hb: hemoglobin; Ht: hematocrit; MCV: mean cell volume; WBC: white blood cells; CRP C-reactive protein.</p

Multivariate model correlating 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) to clinical and functional parameters.

<p><b><i>Legend</i></b>: HGST: hand grip strength test; TSD-OC: specific short-form questionnaire for Obesity-related Disabilities; BMI: body mass index; FMI: fat mass index; FFMI: fat-free mass index; β: the unstandardized coefficients of the independent variable; R²: determination coefficient; SE: standard error; SEE: standard error of the estimate.</p><p>Example of regression equation: Model 1: 6MWD (m)  = 382.17+(3,11 * HGST) − (1.13 * TSD-OC).</p

Distribution of the study population on the basis of the number of types of consumed dietary supplements.

<p>*p<0,05 statistically significant difference between males and females.</p

Study population distribution by age and type of high school.

<p>Study population distribution by age and type of high school.</p