Nutritional Status In A Portuguese Sample Of Institutionalized And Non-Institutionalized Elderly
Table 1:
Nutritional status | F | % |
Undernourished (<22Kg/m²) | 19 (14I+5NI) | 10.5 (12.4I+7.2NI) |
Eutrophic (22-27Kg/m²) | 80 (50I+30NI) | 44.2 (44.2I+44.1NI) |
Obesity (>27Kg/m²) | 82 (49I+33NI) | 45.3 (43.4I+48.5NI) |
Academic qualifications | F | % |
Unable to read or write | 30 | 14.9 |
Read and write without a degree | 23 | 11.4 |
1st cycle | 103 | 51.0 |
2nd/3rd cycles | 25 | 12.4 |
High school | 11 | 5.4 |
Higher education | 8 | 4.0 |