Milk consumption and modification of intestinal habit in elderly residents in urban center

• Autor(a) principal: Najas,Myrian Spínola
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Maeda,Ana Paula, Yamatto,Talita Hatsumi, Nebuloni,Clarice Cavalero
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/354
• topic: elderly, intestinal habit, lactose intolerance and calcium.

<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> To verify the occurrence of alteration of intestinal habit between elderly that they consume milk.<br> <b>METHODS:</b> Transversal study with collection of secondary data. Elderly of both the taken care of sex of February 2004 the December of 2006, in an ambulatory unit of an urban center. The data had been collected in the fiche of first consultation of nutrition, referring to the partner-demographic and dietary conditions. The milk consumption was measured by the 24 hours recall method. Alteration of intestinal habit was considered the self-reported of diarrhea and flatulence after milk intake. The analysis statistics of the joined results was made by means of the use of test T of two samples. The level of significance were fixed in 5% (p &lt; 0,05).<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> Were studied 274 elderly, 75,5% female and 24,5% male. Milk was consumed by 93,1 % of the sample. Of these, 12,6% had presented alteration of the intestinal habit. The average milk intake was of 256,4 mL. The average intake of that they consumed milk and they had presented alteration of intestinal habit the 250,2 mL (DP +/- 158,9 ml). Already the ones that had not presented alteration in the habit, the average intake was of 277,5 mL (DP +/- 183,8 mL). These differences had not been presented statistically significant. Conclusion: Low independent milk consumption of the alteration of the intestinal habit occurred and this was present in 12,6% of the sample that consumed milk. It didn't have statistically significant association between the milk consumption between the elderly ones that they had presented intestinal alteration and the ones that had not presented.</p>