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Preface
Foreword
Contributors
Introduction 1
The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) for Grading the Nutritional State of Elderly Patients: Presentation of the MNA, History and Validation 3
The Mini Nutritional Assessment and Body Composition in Healthy Adults 13
MNA and Immunity: Nutritional Status and Immunological Markers in the Elderly 23
Comparative Nutrition Evaluation with the Mini Nutritional Assessment and the Nutritional Risk Assessment Scale 35
MNA and Odor Perception 41
The MNA Score in People Who Have Aged Successfully 61
Anorexia of Aging, Leptin, and the Mini Nutritional Assessment 67
Associations among the Mini Nutritional Assessment Instrument, Dehydration, and Functional Status among Older African Americans in St. Louis, Mo., USA 79
Mini Nutritional Assessment and Alzheimer Patients 87
Mini Nutritional Assessment and Cancer 93
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and the MNA: An Overview of CGA, Nutritional Assessment, and Development of a Shortened Version of the MNA 101
The Mini Nutritional Assessment for Preoperative Nutritional Evaluation: A Study on 419 Elderly Surgical Patients 117
The Mini Nutritional Assessment in Clinical Practice 123
MNA and Nutritional Intervention 131
MNA and Cost of Care 141
Animal Model: Metabolic and Thermic Responses to Diet and Environment (4[degrees]C) in Obesity during Aging in the LA/Ntul//-cp Rat 149
Appendix 157
Posters 159
Discussions of Poster Presentations 177
Conclusion 187
Subject Index 191