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Relationship between maternal social support and undernutrition among children under 5 years in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia: the chain mediating roles of household food insecurity and maternal depression [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background Undernutrition among children under five years (CUFY) is a leading global public health issue worldwide, including in Cambodia. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of undernutrition and the mediating effect of maternal depression and ...
Mengleang Rek, Nabila Ibn Ziyat, Rui Chen, Xixing Xu, Tenbite Daniel Mekonnen, Filimon Asseged Belay, Mohamad Ramadhani Babuhija, Pheng Ngov, Shuai Wang, Fanlei Kong   +9 more
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Prevalence and Predictors of Undernutrition Among Hospitalized Children in Orotta National Referral and Teaching Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]

Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
Teklezgi Teklesenbet,1 Teweldemedhin Yohannes,1 Mahmud Idris Mohammed,1 Eyasu H Tesfamariam2 1Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Orotta College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea; 2Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of ...
Teklesenbet T, Yohannes T, Mohammed MI, Tesfamariam EH   +3 more
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Wealth‐Based Inequalities in Child Undernutrition and the Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Child‐Mother Dyads at the Same Household in Bangladesh: A Decomposition Approach Using Cross‐Sectional Data [PDF]

Health Science Reports
Backgrounds and Aims Child undernutrition and the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) at the household level are pressing public health issues. Still, an understanding of the wealth‐based inequalities in child undernutrition and DBM among child‐mother ...
Sumaya Sultana, Khondokar Naymul Islam, Syed Afroz Keramat, Benojir Ahammed   +3 more
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Nutritional inequalities among under-five children: a geospatial analysis of hotspots and cold spots in 73 low- and middle-income countries

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Child undernutrition is a severe health problem in the developing world, which affects children’s development in the long term. This study analyses the extent and patterns of under-five child undernutrition using Demographic and Health Surveys
Rafi Amir-ud-Din, Sakina Fawad, Lubna Naz, Sameen Zafar, Ramesh Kumar, Sathirakorn Pongpanich   +5 more
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The Nutritional Status and the Clinical Outcomes of Patients With a Spinal Cord Injury Using Nutritional Screening Tools [PDF]

Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2018
Objective To assess the nutritional status of Korean patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), identify the predictors of undernutrition, and investigate the relationship between undernutrition and clinical outcomes.
Ji Cheol Shin, Shin Hye Chang, Sang Won Hwang, Jae Joong Lee   +3 more
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Spatial patterns and determinants of undernutrition among late-adolescent girls in Ethiopia by using Ethiopian demographic and health surveys, 2000, 2005, 2011 and 2016: a spatial and multilevel analysis

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Undernutrition among late-adolescent girls (15–19 years) in Ethiopia is the highest among Southern and Eastern African countries. However, the spatial variation of undernutrition as a national context is not well understood in Ethiopia.
Nebiyu Mekonnen Derseh, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Atalay Goshu Muluneh   +2 more
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Association between nutritional risk status and health related quality of life: An investigation on the aging patients with cardiovascular disease [PDF]

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, 2023
Introduction: Acknowledging the considerable influence of undernutrition on health outcomes and HRQOL, this study sought to appraise the nutritional risk status of elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) through the utilization of the ...
Leili Faraji Gavgani, Somayeh Alipour, Roghayeh Khabiri, Delara Laghousi, Parvin Sarbakhsh, Haniyeh Farajiazad, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi, Leila Jahangiry   +7 more
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Urban-rural differences in the associated factors of severe under-5 child undernutrition based on the composite index of severe anthropometric failure (CISAF) in Bangladesh

BMC Public Health, 2021
Introduction Severe undernutrition among under-5 children is usually assessed using single or conventional indicators (i.e., severe stunting, severe wasting, and/or severe underweight). But these conventional indicators partly overlap, thus not providing
Asibul Islam Anik, Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Md Nazrul Islam Mondal, Nirmala K. P. Perera, Manzur Kader   +5 more
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Severe undernutrition in children affects tuberculin skin test performance in Southern India.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundUndernutrition impairs immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a risk factor for tuberculosis disease (TB). We aim to investigate if severe undernutrition affects the tuberculin skin test (TST) response among household contacts (HHCs) of ...
Divya Reddy, Yicheng Ma, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Swaroop Sahu, Laura F White, Ayiraveetil Reshma, Gautam Roy, Padmini Salgame, Selby Knudsen, Chelsie Cintron, Jerrold J Ellner, C Robert Horsburgh, Sonali Sarkar, Natasha S Hochberg   +13 more
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Attributable is preventable: Corrected and revised estimates of population attributable fraction of TB related to undernutrition in 30 high TB burden countries

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2022
Introduction: The Global TB Report 2020 estimated the population attributable fractions (PAF) for the major risk factors of TB. Undernourishment emerged as the leading risk factor accounting for 19% of the cases.
Anurag Bhargava, Madhavi Bhargava, Andrea Beneditti, Anura Kurpad   +3 more
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