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Risk Factors for Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children Below Five Years of Age in a Tertiary Care Hospital of District Poonch, Azad Kashmir

open access: yesPakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry
Background: In low-resource environments, severe acute malnutrition (SAM) continues to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity in children under five. The objective of the present research was to identify and assess the risk factors for severe acute
Chaman Ara Rathore   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Perspectives on the Interactions Between Nutrition, Health, and Psychological Functioning

open access: yes, 2011
Food and nutrition occupy the daily thoughts of most people, particularly the 178 million children who are malnourished and have been since their first birthday.
Aboud, Frances E., Frances E. Aboud
core   +1 more source

Quantification of Iodine Supply: Representative Data on Intake and Urinary Excretion of Iodine from the German Population in 1996 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Background/Methods: In Germany, iodine deficiency is common. In a representative group of 2,500 Germans (age >13 years), using a specially designed food questionnaire, the iodine intake was calculated. In addition, iodine and creatinine concentrations in
Manz, Friedrich   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Feeding Practices and Nutritional Status in Children under 2 Years of Age. Analysis for Antioquia, Colombia

open access: yesIatreia
Introduction: Children’s feeding practices during the first thousand days of life have an impact on their nutrition and development. Objectives: To explore the effect of feeding practices on anthropometric measurements in a pediatric population under 24
Taquez-Castro, Claudia Lorena   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the safety of bioactive ingredients in infant formula that affect the immune system: recommendations from an expert panel

open access: yes, 2022
Bioactive ingredients for infant formula have been sought to reduce disparities in health outcomes between breastfed and formula-fed infants. Traditional food safety methodologies have limited ability to assess some bioactive ingredients. It is difficult
Olle Hernell   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Stratified medicine for mental disorders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There is recognition that biomedical research into the causes of mental disorders and their treatment needs to adopt new approaches to research. Novel biomedical techniques have advanced our understanding of how the brain develops and is shaped by ...
Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas   +245 more
core   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Practice of exclusive breastfeeding and its associated factors in a suburban area in Angola: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesSão Paulo Medical Journal
BACKGROUND: Exclusive breastfeeding for six months is one of the measures with highest impact on prevention of child deaths. The determinants of breastfeeding practices are complex and differ between populations.
Susana Valéria Dalcastagnê   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iron and vitamin D status in breastfed infants and their mothers [PDF]

open access: yesKorean Journal of Pediatrics, 2015
PurposeWe assessed the relationships between iron and vitamin D statuses in breastfed infants and their mothers and evaluated the determinants of iron and vitamin D deficiencies in breastfed infants.MethodsSeventy breastfed infants aged 4-24 months and ...
Yu Sun Kang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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