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Dietary Intake of Minerals, Vitamins, and Trace Elements Among Geriatric Population in India

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The geriatric population is at a high risk of developing deficiencies of essential micronutrients such as minerals, vitamins, and trace elements and their related deficiency signs and symptoms. Scarce data is available on the dietary intake of essential micronutrients among geriatric subjects in India. Hence, to fill the gap in the existing knowledge, a community-based cross-sectional study was conducted during 2015–2016 in District Nainital, Uttarakhand State, India. A total of 255 geriatric subjects were enrolled from 30 clusters (villages) identified by using population proportionate to size sampling methodology. Data were collected on sociodemographic profile and dietary intake of essential micronutrients (24-h dietary recall, food frequency questionnaire) from all the geriatric subjects. A high percentage of geriatric subjects did not consume the recommended daily intake for essential micronutrients such as energy (78%), protein (78%), calcium (51%), thiamine (33%), riboflavin (64%), niacin (88%), vitamin C (42%), iron (72%), folic acid (72%), magnesium (48%), zinc (98%), copper (81%) and chromium (89%) adequately. Food groups rich in essential micronutrients such as pulses, green leafy vegetables, roots and tubers, other vegetables, fruits, nonvegetarian food items, and milk and milk products were consumed irregularly by the subjects. The overall intake of energy and essential micronutrients was inadequate among the geriatric population in India, possibly due to poor quality and quantity of the diet consumed.

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  1. Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Aakriti Gupta, Preetika Khenduja, Nighat Yaseen Sofi & Umesh Kapil

  2. Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Ravindra Mohan Pandey & Hem Chandra Sati

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We are extremely grateful to the Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India (vide letter no: 54/3/TF/CFP/AIIMS/GER/2011-NCD-II) for providing us the financial grant for conducting this study.

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Gupta, A., Khenduja, P., Pandey, R.M. et al. Dietary Intake of Minerals, Vitamins, and Trace Elements Among Geriatric Population in India. Biol Trace Elem Res 180, 28–38 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12011-017-0972-8

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