Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
Abstract Objective In stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
ObjectiveIn stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among an elderl...
Tamanna Ferdous, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Åke Wåhlin, Kim Streatfield et al.
Abstract Objective To investigate the associations and relative impact of illness, socio-economic and social indicators for nutritional status among elderly persons in rural Bangladesh. Design A multidisciplinary, cross-sectional study employing home interviews to collect information on demographic,...
Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Abdur Razzaque, Åke Wåhlin et al.
AIM: To investigate the impact of nutritional status on self-reported as well as performance-based indicators of physical function in a rural elderly population in Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted in Matlab, Bangladesh, included 457 randomly selected community-living elderly pe...
Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Jena Hamadani et al.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between nutritional status and general and specific (fluid and crystallized) cognitive functioning in a group of older people living in a rural area in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Matlab, Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS: Four hundred fifty-...
Tamanna Ferdous, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Kim Streatfield, Åke Wåhlin et al.