nutritional status indicators and their interactions in rural guatemalan elderly: a study in san pedro ayampuc. | anthropometry and body-composition measures, hematologic and biochemical measures of nutritional status, and helminthic infection were studied in the population of elderly persons (> or = 60 y of age) in a rural village in guatemala that was 65% mayan (indigenous) and 35% ladino (european). the population had low levels of literacy and formal education. the elderly persons were much shorter and lighter than reference populations. anemia was present in 18% of the population, and riboflavin and vi ... | 1997 | 9322552 |