Table 1.
Participants’ Baseline Characteristics Including Nutrition and Physical Function Measures (n = 85) (29)
| Female | 69% |
| Age | 73.4 ± 8.1 |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| White, non-Hispanic | 75% |
| White, Hispanic | 13% |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 12% |
| Household income | |
| <$30 000 | 47% |
| $30 000–$50 000 | 13% |
| >$50 000 | 29% |
| Unknown | 11% |
| Discharge diagnosis | |
| Cardiovascular disease | 39% |
| Pulmonary disease | 21% |
| Gastrointestinal disease | 15% |
| Metabolic disease | 8% |
| Other | 17% |
| Circumstances that limit quality/quantity of food | |
| Allergies/disease | 15% |
| Trouble eating | 13% |
| Not enough money | 11% |
| Nutrition and physical function measures | |
| BMI | |
| Underweight (<20) | 4% |
| Normoweight (20–24.9) | 28% |
| Overweight (25–29.9) | 20% |
| Obese (>30) | 48% |
| Subject Global Assessment Score (30) | |
| Well nourished | 55% |
| Moderately malnourished | 45% |
| Usual gait speeda | |
| Slow | 60% |
| Not slow | 40% |
| Maximum hand gripa | |
| Weak | 28% |
| Not weak | 72% |
| Do you feel like you are malnourished or at risk? | |
| Yes | 15% |
| Are you worried about the amount of muscle that you have lost with aging? | |
| Yes | 62% |
Notes: BMI = body mass index, FNIH = Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Biomarkers Consortium Sarcopenia Project. Values are reported as a percentage ormean ± SD.
aBased on FNIH cutpoints.