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Sarcopenia, physical frailty, undernutrition and obesity cooccurrence among Portuguese community-dwelling older adults: results from Nutrition UP 65 cross-sectional study.

Ana Rita Sousa-SantosCláudia AfonsoNuno BorgesAlejandro SantosPatrícia PadrãoPedro MoreiraTeresa F Amaral
Published in: BMJ open (2020)
Almost three out of five older adults presented at least one of the conditions related to nutritional status, and about one in five had two or more of these occurrences. However, the low coexistence observed between all of these reinforces the need to assess them all individually during the geriatric assessment.
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