Anthropometric Measures Among Hospitalized Diabetic Patients; Case Control Study | ||
| Medical Journal of Tikrit | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 182, December 2012, Pages 98-105 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sarab K. Abedalrahman | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Although many older people with diabetes are obese, a proportion is recognized to have malnutrition or lesser degrees of nutritional impairment. This study aimed to assess the nutritional status of hospitalized elderly diabetic patient using the anthropometric measures Hospital based case control study in Tikrit teaching hospital with random sampling method of 50 hospitalized elderly diabetics compared with 50 hospitalized non-diabetics. Nutritional assessment done depending on anthropometric measures : Height, weight, BMI, mid arm circumference , and calf circumference. About 6% of diabetics had BMI <18.5 with odds ratio2.17 , 30% had BMI<22 as an indicator of high mortality with odds ratio 2.17. About 12% of diabetic group had MAC ≤ 21 cm versus 4% for non- diabetic group, with odds ratio of 3.3. Calf circumference was <31cm for 48% of diabetics, vs36% of the non-diabetic group, with odds ratio of 1.64. Hospitalized elderly diabetics had non-significant lower anthropometric measures than non-diabetics, indicating nutritional status affection and, the need for an overall nutritional assessment tool encompassing all areas of nutritional evaluation other than anthropometric measures among elderly patients. | ||
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