Mini Nutritional Assessment and Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool in Detection of Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Female

Abstract

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem and becoming increasingly prevalent with the aging of the world population. A major obstacle to combating osteoporosis is the failure to identify individuals with the condition until the clinical consequences have occurred. Thus the identification of risk factors for osteoporosis may facilitate access to diagnosis using DXA and to subsequent intervention. Malnutrition is a known risk factor affect bone metabolism and enhanced risk of osteoporosis. This cross sectional study was conducted in outpatient clinics in Ain Shams University hospital (geriatric and internal medicine) to investigate the relationship between osteoporosis and nutritional status as determined by the Mini-Nutritional Assessment questionnaire (MNA), and to assess the agreement of malnutrition risk between Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) and Mini-Nutritional Assessment questionnaire (MNA) and to compare their relationship with osteoporosis.