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Poor infant feeding practices and high prevalence of malnutrition in urban slum child care centres in nairobi: a pilot study [PDF]
, 2015 Little is known about the style and quality of feeding and care provided in child day-care centres in slum areas. This study purposively sampled five day-care centres in Nairobi, Kenya, where anthropometric measurements were collected among 33 children ...
Garcia, Ada L. +4 more
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Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On the occasion of SAFN's 50th anniversary I reflect on the development of biocultural and human evolutionary approaches to human diet and nutrition. I maintain that SAFN and its predecessors the Committee (1974–1987) and then Council on Nutritional Anthropology (1987–2004) have modeled, fostered, and advanced biocultural work in anthropology ...
Andrea S. Wiley
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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.In a population based study using data from 2280 children with CP, almost one third of children had safety concerns related to eating and drinking (as rated using the Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System, EDACS). Undernutrition was found in 20% of children and higher EDACS‐levels was associated with lower height for age.
Anna Nyman +2 more
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PLoS Medicine, 2019 BackgroundGlobal warming is predicted to indirectly result in more undernutrition by threatening crop production. Whether temperature rise could affect undernutrition directly is unknown.
Rongbin Xu +6 more
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Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]
, 2017 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity call for specific attention to the poor and vulnerable.
Craig Kullman +3 more
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Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims To examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and risk of all‐cause, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) mortality among adults aged 16–50 years with and without type 2 diabetes (T2D). Materials and Methods We conducted a retrospective matched cohort study using primary care records from the Clinical Practice Research ...
Yijing Chen +6 more
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Addressing the double burden of malnutrition in Egypt: do conditional cash transfers have a role? [PDF]
, 2009 Many developing countries are undergoing rapid socio-economic changes that impact on health and its social distribution. These changes can occur so rapidly that there is a resulting co-existence of diseases of affluence and diseases of poverty.
Aitsi-Selmi, A. +3 more
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Intestinal helminth infections and dietary diversity score predict nutritional status of urban schoolchildren from southern Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Undernutrition is a major public health problem in developing countries like Ethiopia where schoolchildren are among the vulnerable groups. However, limited attention has been given for the nutritional status of schoolchildren including the ...
Argaw, Alemayehu, Getachew, Tagel
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Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction The risk of delivering a small‐for‐gestational‐age (SGA) neonate is increased after Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass (RYGB). Because glucose is the foetus's primary energy source and postprandial hypoglycemia is common after RYGB, the Bariatric surgery And consequences for Mother and Baby In pregnancy (BAMBI) study examined associations ...
Louise L. Stentebjerg +6 more
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Undernutrition risk at hospital admission and length of stay among pulmonology inpatients
Pulmonology, 2018 Background There is a lack of evidence regarding the association between the undernutrition risk at hospital admission with adverse clinical outcomes amongst pulmonology inpatients.
I. Maia +4 more
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