Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have been under development for several years, and have been in operational use by individual practices and healthcare delivery institutions since at least 2008. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database to collect voluntary and mandatory reports of adverse events involvin...

BACKGROUND For patients to effectively manage gout, they need to be aware of the impact of diet, alcohol use, and medications on their condition. We sought to examine patients' knowledge and beliefs concerning gout and its treatment in order to identify barriers to optimal patient self-management. METHODS We identified patients (≥18 years of age) cared for in the setting of a multispecialty g...

In this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, Kristal et al (1) report on analyses of several standardized questions about health behaviors related to sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and other aspects of diet and physical activity in a Bronx population served by several federally qualified health centers. These analyses are part of a larger project that links clinical and community approach...

BACKGROUND The growing prevalence of food allergies indicates a responsibility among primary care providers to ensure that their patients receive accurate diagnosis and management. OBJECTIVE To improve physician knowledge and management of food allergies by implementing educational and electronic medical record interventions. METHODS Pre- and posttest scores of pediatric residents and facul...

Methods We analyzed randomly a study of 36 cases among the medical records of patients from the files of the BSFA (Brazilian Society of Food Allergy ), aged between 2 and 16 years, of both genders, with the diagnosis of food allergy and asthma. Asthma was diagnosed by the classical clinical picture. Food allergy was diagnosed by the normalization of the clinical picture in response to the withd...

introduction : in islam, fasting means abstaining from food and beverages from sunrise azaan to sunset azaan. this long period of hunger with the increasing feeling of weakness leads to changes in nutritional habits and behaviors. therefore, this study aimed to assess the dietary intake of different food groups with a view to see the effect of food diversity on nutritional needs of fasting indi...

Top-predators play stabilising roles in island food webs, including Fraser Island, Australia. Subsidising generalist predators with human-sourced food could disrupt this balance, but has been proposed to improve the overall health of the island's dingo (Canis lupus dingo) population, which is allegedly 'starving' or in 'poor condition'. We assess this hypothesis by describing the diet and healt...

Quercetin and related flavonoids are anticarcinogenic in rats, but little is known about human intakes. The intake of five major flavonols and flavones was calculated using 1-day dietary records of 17 volunteers from 14 countries, and using both 3-day records and a food frequency questionnaire of eight Dutch adults. Total consumption (+/- SD) was 27.6 +/- 19.5 mg/day in the international subjec...

BACKGROUND Alkylresorcinols (ARs), phenolic lipids exclusively present in the outer parts of wheat and rye grains, have been proposed as specific dietary biomarkers of whole-grain wheat and rye intake. OBJECTIVE The objective was to validate plasma ARs as a biomarker of whole-grain wheat and rye intakes by studying the correlation between their plasma concentration and intake calculated from ...

The objective of this work was to quantify the impact of the voluntary fortification of foods on dietary intakes of vitamins and minerals of Irish adults. Foods that were voluntarily fortified were identified and pre- and post-fortification levels of micronutrients were determined from data supplied by manufacturers and food composition tables. Using food consumption data in 1379 adults aged 18...