The nurse is performing an assessment of an 80-year-old patient. Information related to the patient's nutritional-metabolic functional health pattern that the nurse recognizes as abnormal in a patient of this age is
A) loss of appetite and anorexia.
B) difficulty chewing and swallowing food.
C) complaints of indigestion and fullness.
D) unintentional weight loss.
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