e National Council of Old Age to detect older adults at risk for malnutrition. The questionnaire is composed of 10 items, in a yes (with changing scores)/no (0) response format.

3.5. Covariates
We controlled for the socioeconomic variables of gender (dichotomous; 0 = male, 1 = female), age, years of education (both continuous), and marital status (with partner = 1, or without