Anthropometric Measures Among Hospitalized Diabetic Patients; Case Control Study

Abstract

Background: Although many older people with diabetes are obese. a proportion is recognized | to have malnutrition or lesser degrees of nutritional impairment. This study aimed to assess the nutritional status of hospitalized elderly diabetic patient using the anthropometric measures Hospital based case control study in Tikrit teaching hospital with random sampling method of 50 hospitalized clderly diabetics compared with 50 hospitalized non-diabetics. (Nutritional assessment done depending on anthropometric measures : Height, weight, BMI, mid arm circumference , and calf cire umitrence. About 6% of diabetics had BMI <18.5 with odds ratio2.17 , 30% had BMI<22 as an indicator of high mortality with odds ratio 2.17, About ratio 12% of diabetic group had MAC <21 ¢m versus 4% for non- diabetic group, with odds | of 3.3. Calf circumference was <31em for 48% of diabetics, vs36% of the non-diabetic group, with odds ratio of 1.64. Hospitalized clderly diabetics had non-significant lower anthropometric measures than non-diabetics, indicating nutritional status affection and, the need for an overall nutritional assessment fool encompassing all areas of nutritional evaluation other than anthropometric measures among elderly patients.