Undernutrition: Prevalence and Likely Significance
in NDNS65+ Free-Living
Population
Osteoporosis,
muscle pain/weak, infection
Due
to deficiency, bleeding, chronic illness
Anaemia,
fatigue, heart failure
Constipation,
colon cancer, vascular disease
Depression,
anaemia, vascular disease
Poor immunity and reduced longevity; Zn – taste, vision, wound healing; Cu - anaemia
Fatigue,
neurological and vascular disease
Fatigue,
poor wound healing, infection
Underweight,
fatigue, poor immunity, fracture