Is Malnutrition Increasing?

Role of Malnutrition in Increasing Risk of Hospital Readmissions

Malnutrition is common across healthcare settings. Multiple factors contribute to malnutrition and it often results in negative clinical and economic outcomes, including decreased strength, impaired functionality and quality of life, increased morbidity and mortality, longer hospital stays, and increased risk for hospital readmissions. These outcomes have significant implications for the U.S. h...

Is asthma mortality increasing?

malnutrition is associated with depression in rural elderly population

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: aging induces physiological changes and affects all of organs. nutritional status and mental health deteriorate with aging. as malnutrition and depression are main problem in elderly this study was performed to assess the association between malnutrition and depression among rural elderly. materials and methods: three hundred and seventy...

1 What is complexity ? Is it increasing ?

Most people don’t need to be persuaded that the physical world is bewilderingly complex. Everywhere we look, frommolecules to clusters of galaxies, we see layer upon layer of complex structures and complex processes. The success of the scientific enterprise over the last 300 years largely stems from the assumption that beneath the surface complexity of the universe lies an elegant mathematical ...

Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980.

Nutritional status is the best global indicator of well-being in children. Although many surveys of children have been conducted since the 1970s, lack of comparability between them has made it difficult to monitor trends in child malnutrition. Cross-sectional data from 241 nationally representative surveys were analysed in a standard way to produce comparable results of low height-for-age (stun...