Diet quality is associated with malnutrition and low calf circumference in Canadian long-term care residents

BMC Nutrition

Table 1 Sample characteristic and outcomes of interest

Resident Characteristics	Mean (SD)
Age, years	86.8 (7.8)
Sex, male (%)	31.2
Moderate/severe cognitive impairment, (CPS^a score ≥ 3), yes (%)	55.5
Ed-FED-Q Score^a	12.4 (2.3)
Other eating behaviors Score (maximum = 27)^a	10.6 (1.6)
Activity of daily living Scale^a	15.0 (7.8)
Physical assistance (sometimes or often) with eating required^a (%)	22.9
Total number of diagnoses	5.4 (2.0)
Any ONS prescribed, yes (%)	30.5
MTD (IDDSI category 3–5), yes (%)	33.0
Outcome variables
CC, cm	33.3 (4.8)
CC < 31cm^b (%)	32.6
MNA-SF	10.7 (2.5)
Malnourished/At risk of malnutrition (MNA-SF < 12) (%)	53.3
PG-SGA (Malnutrition = B/C) (%)	43.5

^aMissing values; Ed-FED-Q, n = 616; Other eating behaviors score, n = 616; Activity of daily living score, n = 614; Physical Assistance, n = 616
^bAs per Mini Nutritional Assessment cut-point (MNA) [31]

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