Malnutrition-related conditions and interventions in US state/territorial Older Americans Act aging plans

BMC Geriatrics

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for defined nutrition term mentions in 52 US state/territorial multi-year aging plans^a

Terms searched	Mean	Standard deviation	25th quartile	Median	75th quartile
Nutrition
Number (#) overall mentions	31.1	23.0	14.5	25.5	40.5
# mentions in Goal/Objective	1.8	3.3	0.0	1.0	2.0
# mentions in Strategy/Action	6.6	10.1	1.0	4.0	7.0
Malnutrition/undernutrition/underweight
# overall mentions	1.2	3.2	0.0	0.0	1.0
# mentions in Goal/Objective	0.1	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
# mentions in Strategy/Action	0.3	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Frailty/frail
# overall mentions	2.7	4.0	0.0	1.0	3.5
# mentions in Goal/Objective	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
# mentions in Strategy/Action	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Obesity/overweight
# overall mentions	0.4	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
# mentions in Goal/Objective	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
# mentions in Strategy/Action	0.1	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0

^aPlans reviewed were those available on the ADvancing States website in February 2021; there were no mentions of sarcopenia in the state/territorial unit on aging plans

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