Factors Associated with the Development of High Nutrition Risk: Data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

This study aimed to determine which social network, demographic, and health-indicator variables were able to predict the development of high nutrition risk in Canadian adults at midlife and beyond, using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Multivariable binomial logistic regression was used to examine the predictors of the development of high nutrition risk at follow-up, 3 years after baseline. At baseline, 35.0 per cent of participants were at high nutrition risk and 42.2 per cent were at high risk at follow-up. Lower levels of social support, lower social participation, depression, and poor self-rated healthy aging were associated with the development of high nutrition risk at follow-up. Individuals showing these factors should be screened proactively for nutrition risk. Cette etude basee sur des donnees de l'etude longitudinale canadienne sur le vieillissement visait a determiner quelles variables liees au reseau social, aux donnees demographiques et aux indicateurs de sante pouvaient permettre de predire le developpement d'un risque nutritionnel eleve chez les adultes canadiens d'age mur et plus ages. Une regression logistique binomiale multivariee a ete utilisee pour examiner les facteurs predictifs du developpement d'un risque nutritionnel eleve lors du suivi, trois ans apres le debut de l'etude. Au depart, 35,0 % des participants presentaient un risque nutritionnel eleve contre 42,2 % lors du suivi. Des niveaux inferieurs de soutien social, une participation sociale plus faible, la depression et un niveau mediocre de vieillissement en bonne sante auto-evalue ont ete associes au developpement d'un risque nutritionnel eleve lors du suivi. Les personnes presentant ces facteurs devraient faire l'objet d'un depistage proactif de risque nutritionnel.

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This study used data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging to examine the predictors of high nutrition risk in Canadian adults at midlife and beyond. The results showed that lower levels of social support, lower social participation, depression, and poor self-rated healthy aging were associated with the development of high nutrition risk.