4.2. Study Population
gait disorders, skin disorders
ADVERSE EFFECTS, EVENT, SKIN DISORDERS
Patients from the geriatric service (age ≥ 65 years and <100 years) were eligible if their management included a complete blood workup with exploration of their nutritional and inflammatory status. Patients consulted in a day hospital, for loss of autonomy or gait disorders, in the absence of an acute medical event. These relatively autonomous patients often had nutritional and inflammatory parameters within the normal range. Other patients were hospitalized for a geriatric short stay, suffering from an acute medical event, with a more pronounced frailty profile, with more impaired nutritional parameters and often elevated inflammatory markers. Patients were excluded if they had skin disorders that increased the risk of adverse effects from capillary blood sampling. Patients were enrolled within 24 h of being identified as meeting inclusion criteria. No data other than those related to the patients’ normal clinical care were collected (