Nutritional risks of unhealthy diets [PDF]
Currently, one in three people in the world is affected by at least one type of malnutrition and, if no action is rapidly taken, this could become one in two by 2025.
Dury, Sandrine, Martin-Prével, Yves
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Dietary counseling in the management of moderate malnourishment in children. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Dietary counseling is an integral part of treating malnutrition. A first step toward improving the management of moderate malnutrition is to evaluate dietary messages in current programs and assess their adequacy and effectiveness. OBJECTIVES:
Ashworth, Ann, Ferguson, Elaine
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The relationship of ethnicity, socio-economic factors and malnutrition in primary school children in North of Iran: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
related factors based on three ethnic groups among primary school children in north of Iran in 2010. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out through multistage cluster random sampling on 5698 subjects (2505 Fars-native, 2154 Turkman, and 1039
Agrawal, B.N., Yoon, H.
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"INTERGROWTH21st vs customized fetal growth curves in the assessment of the neonatal nutritional status: a retrospective cohort study of gestational diabetes" [PDF]
Background Gestational diabetes mellitus is associated with increased incidence of adverse perinatal outcomes including newborns large for gestational age, macrosomia, preeclampsia, polyhydramnios, stillbirth, and neonatal morbidity.
Castillo Lara, María +7 more
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Geoadditive Latent Variable Modelling of Child Morbidity and Malnutrition in Nigeria [PDF]
Investigating the impact of important risk factors and geographical location on child morbidity and malnutrition is of high relevance for developing countries. Previous research has usually carried out separate regression analyses for certain diseases or
Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Khatab, Khaled
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Assessing the impact of the introduction of the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: Secondary data analysis [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to assess the impact of adopting the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children compared with the use ...
Grais, R +3 more
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Acute Malnutrition and Under-5 Mortality, Northeastern Part of India. [PDF]
We assessed the prevalence of childhood acute malnutrition and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in Darbhanga district, India, using a two-stage 49-cluster household survey. A total of 1379 households comprising 8473 people were interviewed.
Boss +10 more
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Effect of Mass Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food during an anticipated nutritional emergency [PDF]
Previous studies have shown the benefits of ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) distribution in reducing the incidence and prevalence of severe acute ...
Emmanuel Grellety +7 more
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Estimates of the duration of untreated acute malnutrition in children from Niger. [PDF]
Expected incidence of acute malnutrition is the most appropriate measure for projecting the needs of a nutritional treatment program over time in terms of staffing, food, and other treatments, but direct estimation of incidence is rarely feasible at the ...
A. Briend +8 more
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Targeting the muscle for the treatment and prevention of hepatic encephalopathy [PDF]
Muscle mass loss or sarcopenia is a principle component of malnutrition which prevails in 65–90% of patients with end-stage liver disease [1]. Intuitively, the roots of malnutrition play a precipitating role in muscle catabolism.
Bémeur, Chantal +2 more
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