NOTES

This work was supported by Seoul city government grant (2009) and the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Korean government (2009-0093587)

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Table 1

General characteristics of subjects

1) Mean ± SD, 2) range (min-max), 3) N (%)

Table 2

Physical measurement

1) Mean ± SD, 2) range (min-max), ns: not significant

Table 3

Health status and life style

1) N (%), 2) Mean ± SD, 3) range (min-max), ns: not significant

Table 4

Dietary behavior

1) N (%), 2) Mean ± SD, 3) range (min-max), ns: not significant

Table 5

Average daily food intake (g/day)

1) Mean ± SD (%)

Table 6

The average daily nutrient intake of subjects

1) Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2010 (KCDCP 2011)

2) Study on nutritional status of elderly aged 85 and more living in Soonchang-gun (Lee 2009)

3) male (n) / female (n), 4) Mean ± SD, 5) Mean for males/females

^*: significantly different between gender at p < 0.05

Table 7

Percent EER and RI of nutrient intake of subjects

1) Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2010 (KCDCP 2011)

2) Study on nutritional status of elderly aged 85 and more living in Soonchang-gun (Lee 2009)

3) male (n) / female (n), 4) mean for males/females, 5) Mean ± SD

^**: Significantly different between gender at p < 0.01

Table 8

Prevalence of nutrient intake under EAR

1) Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2010 (KCDCP 2011)

2) male (n) / female (n), 3) under 75% EER, 4) N (%), 5) mean for males/females, 6) Mean ± SD

Table 9

Index of Nutrient Quality (INQ) and Man Adequacy Ratio (MAR)

1) Mean ± SD, 2) N (%), ns: not significant

Significantly different between gender at ^*: p < 0.05, ^**: p < 0.01 or ^***: p < 0.001

Table 10

Food intake diversity and meal balance

1) Mean ± SD, ns: not significant

Table 11

Mini-Nutrition Assessment (MNA) of subjects

1) Mean ± SD, 2) N (%), ns: not significant

significantly different between gender at p < 0.05^* or p < 0.001^***

Table 12

Nutrient intake and dietary factors according to nutritional status assessed by MNA

1) Mean ± SD, 2) means without common alphabet are significantly different each other within a same gender.

3) nEAR: number of nutrient under EAR, 4) nINQ < 1: number of nutrient with INQ < 1

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