Is underweightness still a major problem in Parkinson's disease patients?
Eur J Clin Nutr
; 57(4): 543-7, 2003 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-12700615
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the current rate of underweightness amongst Parkinson's disease (PD) patients at an Italian referral centre.DESIGN:
Epidemiological study on consecutive patients presenting for the first time in a 16-month period.SETTING:
Nutritional service of PD referral centre in Milan, Italy.SUBJECTS:
Three-hundred and sixty-four PD patients diagnosed according to CAPIT criteria.METHODS:
Anthropometric assessments BMI and waist-to-hip ratio; evaluation of therapeutic physical activity (h/week).RESULTS:
Three-hundred and sixty-four patients were included (180 female, 184 male), mean (s.d.) age 65.9 (8.9) y, mean (s.d.) duration of PD 10.6 (5.3) y; 134 patients (37%) were overweight and 92 (25%) were obese; 11 (3%) were underweight; 127 (35%) had normal BMI. No important differences in BMI according to sex and smoking status were observed. There was highly significant inverse correlation between duration of disease and BMI (P<0.001) mean (s.d.) duration of disease was 9.7 (4.7) y in overweight+obese patients, 11.1 (5.5) y in patients with normal BMI and 14.1 (7.2) y in underweight patients (P=0.0059). The waist-to-hip ratio was a cardiovascular risk factor in 47.7% of men and 73.8% of women. Mean (s.d.) therapeutic physical activity was 1.07 (1.59) h/week in overweight and obese patients vs 1.61 (2.04) h/week in patients with normal BMI (50.5% increase; P=0.03).CONCLUSIONS:
At present underweightness is uncommon in PD patients in Italy; this may be due to the increase in the prevalence of overweightness in the Italian population and to modern antiparkinsonian therapy.
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Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doença de Parkinson
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Magreza
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur J Clin Nutr
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DA NUTRICAO
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália