| Literature DB >> 1641197 |
L C de Groot1, J G Hautvast, W A van Staveren.
Abstract
In 1988 EURONUT, the umbrella European Community (EC) Concerted Action on Nutrition and Health, initiated a major European multicenter study, named SENECA,* to study cross-cultural differences in nutritional issues and life-style factors affecting health and performance of elderly people in Europe. According to a strictly standardized methodology, 2,586 elderly subjects--born between 1913 and 1918--have been studied in 19 towns across Europe, using a mixed longitudinal design. Data regarding nutrient and food intakes, diet habits, diet awareness, nutritional status, health, and life-style factors were collected and are partially presented in this paper. There was considerable variability from site to site--even within countries--in dietary intake, in both quantity and composition; blood biochemistries; life-style factors; health; and performance. Implications of the observed wide variability will be studied longitudinally.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1641197 DOI： 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1992.tb01323.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nutr Rev ISSN： 0029-6643 Impact factor: 7.110