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Assessment of nutritional status
Food and Cosmetics Toxicology, 1965My task is to introduce the topic of assessment of nutritional status and, whichever way I look at it, it is an awkward assignment. I have been twisting it in my head, this way and that, and think now that the subject is not so much the assessment of nutritional status as the ways of achieving the desirable nutritional status in experimental animals. I
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Screening of nutritional status in The Netherlands
Clinical Nutrition, 2003In 2001, the Dutch Dietetic Association conducted a national screening on malnutrition. The goal of this screening was to determine the prevalence of disease-related malnutrition in The Netherlands in all fields of medical care and to investigate the involvement of the dietitian in the treatment of malnutrition.Eight thousand five hundred and twenty ...
Kruizenga, H.M. +8 more
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Serum albumin and nutritional status
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 1980Serum albumin concentration is frequently used to define nutritional status. To validate this relationship, 161 body composition studies were performed on 102 patients simultaneously with protein electrophoresis. The body cell mass represented by the exchangeable potassium to total body water ratio correlated significantly (p < 0.001) with the serum
R. Armour Forse, Harry M. Shizgal
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Nutritional Status in Childhood Malignancies
Nutrition and Cancer, 2002In children affected by tumor, nutritional status is important to sustain aggressive chemotherapy and to support normal growth during and after therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of nutritional status disorders in a sample of pediatric oncology day-hospital patients.
SCHIAVETTI, Amalia +4 more
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Nursing Older People, 2009
Protein energy malnutrition is a frequent and serious problem in older people. Oral supplements help but their consumption often results in gastrointestinal disturbance. This approach also ignores the fact that eating has psychological, social and religious meaning and is not just about meeting a biological need.
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Protein energy malnutrition is a frequent and serious problem in older people. Oral supplements help but their consumption often results in gastrointestinal disturbance. This approach also ignores the fact that eating has psychological, social and religious meaning and is not just about meeting a biological need.
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Nutritional Status and Immune Responses
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 1993The immune system is dependent on good nutritional status for its optimal functioning. Immune function itself can provide a broad measure of nutritional deficiency. For example, lymphocyte count and skin reactivity most often are used for this purpose. Of course, such tests are of little value in monitoring nutritional therapy.
CHANDRA R. K., SARCHIELLI, Paola
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Impact of nutrition education on the nutritional status
Nutrition & Food Science, 2012PurposeNutrition education is an important measure to improve dietary habits and food choices, since poor dietary habits are the main reason for poor nutritional status of adolescents. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of nutrition education on the nutritional and dietary profile of adolescents and early adults.Design ...
Mohammed Buzgeia +4 more
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Nutritional status and nutritional management in children with cancer
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2015Malnutrition is often seen at the point of diagnosis in childhood malignancy or may develop during the course of treatment. Strategies for optimal diagnosis and management of nutritional problems in children with cancer are limited in the published literature.
Edward P T Gaynor, Peter B Sullivan
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Assessment of Nutritional Status
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975To the Editor.— The recent article by Dr. Bruce Bistrian et al (230:858, 1974) and the editorial by Dr. Butterworth (230:879, 1974) were of considerable interest to us. In brief, because the nutritional situation is so much worse and because resources are in all ways inadequate, the assessment of nutritional status using lowcost, simple methods has ...
E. F. P. Jelliffe, Derrick B. Jelliffe
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