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This study aimed to assess the prevalence of undernutrition among elderly and to investigate the association of risk of undernutrition with health-related quality of life and life satisfaction controlling for age, gender, marital status, economic status, housing arrangement, education level, functional ability, and diseases.

A cross-sectional study design was used for this study. The baseline data (2001-2003) of “The Swedish National Study of Aging and Care-Blekinge (SNAC-B)” was used.

This population-based study focused on both home-living and special-housing residents. Participants: The participants (n=1402) were randomly selected and included both males and females 60-96 years of age residing in a municipality of south-east Sweden.

The risk of undernutrition was estimated by the occurrence of at least one anthropometric measure (body mass index, mid-arm …