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Nutritional vulnerability of older refugees

1999-01-01

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Objective: To examine the determinants of nutritional vulnerability in older refugees. Design: Cross-sectional data collection included anthropometry, functional ability measures (physical performance tests and independence in activities of daily living (ADL)), clinical screening, food frequency and socio-economic information. In-depth and group interviews were conducted in a sub-sample. To calculate body mass ind...

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Literature Corpus work: 11f32504-f16f-5a03-8e5f-dfa5caf3e2a1
DOI: 10.17037/pubs.04656736

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