%0 Journal Article
%T Improvement in Nutritional Status of Protein-Malnutrition Elderly after Intervention Using a Casein-Based Balanced Liquid Nutrition Formula as Nutritional Support
%A Kenji Mizumoto
%A Xudong Xiong
%A Hua Yan
%A Xiaolin Wang
%A Zaisi Ji
%A Hajime Sasaki
%J Food and Nutrition Sciences
%P 1083-1093
%@ 2157-9458
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/fns.2014.511118
%X A nutritional intervention for 8 weeks was conducted in the elderly
(>65 y) living in nursing homes in Shanghai,
who showed body weight within the normal range but albumin levels of <35
g/L. The intervened took 400 kcal/day of a balanced liquid nutrition formula
containing casein as a major protein source (90% of total protein) in addition
to their daily diets, while the non-intervened took only daily diets. Daily
diet intakes during the trial were 1738 ¡À 240 kcal/day in the intervened and 1612
¡À 187 kcal/day in the non-intervened. The energy intake in the intervened wascompensated for by reducing their daily diets,
which resulted in a similar level to that in the non-intervened. This
intervention resulted in intakes of protein and carbohydrate being significantly
increased: P16.4%, F27.3%, C56.3% in the intervened; P13.0%, F36.3%, C50.7% in
the non-intervened. Albumin level of the intervened increased from 32.7 ¡À 3.1
g/L to 37.3 ¡À 1.9 g/L, while it did not significantly change in the
non-intervened: 30.0 ¡À 4.2 g/L to 31.3 ¡À 4.6 g/L. Using GNRI (geriatric
nutritional risk index), nutritional risk levels were assessed; GNRI of the
intervened significantly improved from 88.7 ¡À 6.3 (intermediate risk) to 95.7 ¡À
4.5 (low risk), while its status did not change in the non-intervened: 84.6 ¡À 7.7
(intermediate risk) to 86.5 ¡À 7.9 (intermediate risk). The intervention using a
casein-based balanced liquid nutrition formula effectively improved protein-malnutrition
in the elderly. This result suggests that a casein-based balanced liquid
nutrition formula is an effective nutrition source that can be applied to a
nutritional program to improve malnutrition of the elderly.
%K Elderly
%K Protein
%K Casein
%K Energy
%K Malnutrition
%K Liquid Nutrition Formula
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