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The effects of malaria control on nutritional status in infancy

Acta Tropica, 1997
Both malaria and undernutrition are major causes of paediatric mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. The introduction of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITBN) during a randomized controlled trial on the Kenyan coast significantly reduced severe, life-threatening malaria and all-cause childhood mortality.
Snow, RW, Molyneux, CS, Njeru, EK, Omumbo, J, Nevill, CG, Muniu, E, Marsh, K   +6 more
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The Prognostic value of the controlling nutritional status score in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome

Supportive Care in Cancer, 2022
Abstract Purpose To evaluate the prognostic value of the controlling nutritional status score (CONUT) in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Methods The clinical data of 81 newly diagnosed MDS patients treated with decitabine in the hematology ward of our hospital from October 2009 to September 2020 were analyzed retrospectively ...
Jin QIAN, Jing WANG, feng CHENG, hong-feng GUO, jun XIA, Xin ZHOU   +5 more
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Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of Malnutrition in Older Japanese Adults at High Surgical Risk Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background The usefulness of preprocedural nutritional status to stratify prognosis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation has been evaluated; however, the studies conducted so far have been relatively small and/or focused on a single nutritional ...
Kenichi Ishizu, Shinichi Shirai, Hiroaki Tashiro, Kazuki Kitano, Hiroyuki Tabata, Miho Nakamura, Toru Morofuji, Naoto Murakami, Takashi Morinaga, Masaomi Hayashi, Akihiro Isotani, Yoshio Arai, Nobuhisa Ohno, Shinichi Kakumoto, Kenji Ando   +14 more
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Nutritional status in eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders: A pediatric case‐control study [PDF]

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 2022
AbstractEosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGIDs) represent an emerging group of heterogeneous diseases associated with failure to thrive, weight loss, protein‐losing enteropathy, and malnutrition. To date, no studies have assessed the nutritional status, vitamin D, and other vitamin levels in patients with non‐esophageal EGIDs.
Martina Votto, Giacomo Bonitatibus, Maria De Filippo, Serena Anjali Pitigalage Kurera, Ilaria Brambilla, Carmen Guarracino, Mara De Amici, Gian Luigi Marseglia, Amelia Licari   +8 more
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MONITORING THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF PATIENTS WITH PRESSURE ULCERS USING THE CONTROLLING NUTRITIONAL STATUS METHOD [PDF]

Journal of Aging Research and Lifestyle, 2016
Objectives: To evaluate methods for monitoring the nutritional status of patients with pressure ulcers (PU). Design: A retrospective case series study. Setting and Participants: Twenty-nine patients (mean age, 80.6 years; 10 men) with PU admitted to the acute care ward of Namegata District General Hospital, Japan, were recruited.
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Nutrition and handgrip strength of older adults in rural Malawi. [PDF]

, 2001
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the nutritional status and handgrip strength of older people in rural Malawi. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: : Lilongwe rural, Malawi, situated approximately 35-50 km from the city. SUBJECTS: Ninety
Ismail, SJ, Chilima, DM
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Evaluation of the controlling nutritional status score and prognostic nutritional index in patients with familial Mediterranean fever

European Journal of Rheumatology, 2022
Objective: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common disease that leads to secondary amyloidosis in Turkish population. The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score were recently investigated in many clinical conditions as predictors of disease activity and prognosis of underlying disease.
Cobankara, Veli, Karasu, Ugur, Kaymaz, Serdar, Ulutas, Firdevs, Yasar, Canan Albayrak, Ok, Zeynep Dundar   +5 more
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Controlling Nutritional Status Score as a Predictive Marker of In-hospital Mortality in Older Adult Patients

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021
The controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score assesses nutritional status and is associated with short- and long-term prognoses in some diseases, but the significance of the CONUT score for the prediction of in-hospital mortality in older adults is ...
Chengyu Liu, Mingwei Zhu, Xin Yang, Hongyuan Cui, Zijian Li, Junmin Wei   +5 more
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Relationship between nutritional status and length of hospital stay among patients with atrial fibrillation – a result of the nutritional status heart study [PDF]

, 2022
BACKGROUND: Nutritional status is related to the prognosis and length of hospital stay (LOHS) of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). This study aimed to assess how nutritional status affects LOHS for patients with AF.
Juárez-Vela, Raúl, Baeza-Trinidad, Ramón, Uchmanowicz, Izabella, Kałużna-Oleksy, Marta, Durante, Angela [0000-0003-1034-5988], Juárez-Vela, Raúl [0000-0003-3597-2048], Smereka, Jacek, Czapla, Michał, Czapla, Michał [0000-0002-4245-5420], Durante, Angela, Łokieć, Katarzyna, Baeza-Trinidad, Ramón [0000-0002-7854-3115]   +11 more
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Postoperative controlling nutritional status score is an independent risk factor of survival for patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective study

BMC Surgery, 2021
Background The controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score has been widely used to evaluate the nutritional and immunological status. Clinical value of postoperative CONUT (PoCONUT) score in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unknown.
Wei Peng, Minghong Yao, Kang Zou, Chuan Li, Tianfu Wen, Xin Sun   +5 more
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