老年营养不良筛查与评价方法的研究进展

Research progress in screening and assessing methods for malnutrition in the elderly

营养不良是常见的老年综合征,是老年人群多种疾病预后不良的独立危险因素。目前,尚无专门针对老年人群的营养筛查金标准。现有的营养筛查工具适用范围广,评价的主客观指标不同,虽然增加了使用的方便性,但不同评估方法灵敏度、特异度有差异,同一目标人群应用不同方法进行评估所得结果可能不同。本文将对常用老年营养不良筛查与评价方法进行综述。

Malnutrition is a common geriatric syndrome,perceived as an independent risk factor for poor prognosis of various diseases in the elderly.Currently,no gold standard is available for malnutrition screening specifically for them.Existing nutritional screening tools have a wide range of applications,and subjective and objective indicators of evaluation are different.Although they increase the convenience of use,the sensitivity and specificity of different assessment methods vary.The results obtained by different methods for the same target population may be different.This article reviews the common tools for malnutrition screening and assessing in the elderly.