RT journal article
T1 Ultrasound Muscle Assessment and Nutritional Status in Institutionalized Older Adults: A Pilot Study
A1 Mateos Angulo, Álvaro
A1 Galán Mercant, Alejandro
A1 Cuesta Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 ultrasound
K1 muscle thickness
K1 functional capacity
K1 nutritional assessment
K1 aging
AB Muscle thickness, measured by ultrasonography, has been investigated for nutritionalassessment in older adults, however the associations between muscle ultrasound parameters in thelower limb and nutritional status have not been studied. The aim of this study was to investigatethe relationship between muscle thickness echo intensity (EI), and nutritional status in home careresidents. A cross sectional study was conducted involving 19 older adults from a home care inMalaga (Spain). We evaluated lower leg muscles by ultrasound, anthropometric data, physicalfunction (measured by gait speed and the Short Physical Performance Battery), strength (handgrip andknee extensors strength) and nutritional status across the Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Form(MNA-SF). We found that muscle thickness assessed by ultrasonography independently predictsnutritional status by MNA-SF and after adjusting for handgrip strength or age and sex. As secondaryfindings, we found relations between strength, functional capacity and the MNA-SF test. Theseresults suggest that lower leg muscle ultrasound parameters could be used as a low-cost objectivemethod for muscle evaluation in nutritional assessment in older adults.
PB MDPI
SN 2072-6643
YR 2019
FD 2019-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21663
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21663
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026