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Prevalence of undernutrition at admission and associated factors among children with cancer admitted to the University Hospital of Tangier: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics
Background/objectivesIn pediatric oncology, undernutrition is a silent emergency. In developing countries, the situation is exacerbated by socio-economic insecurity and limited availability of specialized health services.
Amal Boumlik, Abdallah Oulmaati, Abdallah Oulmaati, Adil Najdi, Karima Sammoud, Yousra El Boussaadni, Yousra El Boussaadni   +6 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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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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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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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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Association of trends in child undernutrition and implementation of the National Rural Health Mission in India: A nationally representative serial cross-sectional study on data from 1992 to 2015.

PLoS Medicine, 2022
BackgroundIndia launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 to strengthen its primary healthcare system in high-focus and northeast-focus states.
Apurv Soni, Nisha Fahey, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Wenjun Li, Tiffany Moore Simas, Somashekhar Nimbalkar, Jeroan Allison   +6 more
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Risk Factors for Undernutrition at Admission Among Adult Hospitalized Patients at a Referral Hospital in Indonesia

SAGE Open, 2021
Patients with undernutrition at admission have higher risks to worsen their nutritional status, which is linked to an increase in morbidity and mortality. This study investigated the prevalence of undernutrition at admission and its associated factors. A
Nur Chandra Bunawan, Dwi Suseno, Drupadi H. S. Dillon, Ikhwan Rinaldi, Dyah Purnamasari   +4 more
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