OBJECTIVE To study the effects on children of humanitarian aid agencies restricting help to refugee families (internally displaced people). DESIGN Follow up study of 3 months. SETTING Prabis peninsular outside Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, which has functioned as a refugee area for internally displaced people in the ongoing war, and the study area of the Bandim health project in Bis...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a common problem in dialysis patients and may affect up to one-third of patients. Near-infrared interactance (NIR) is a novel approach to estimate body composition and per cent total body fat. METHODS We used near-infrared interactance (Futrex 5000) to estimate the body composition including body fat percentage, as well as subjective global assessment (SGA), anthrop...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition can be considered the most common disease in hospitals due to its high prevalence. AIM To investigate the methods of evaluation of the nutritional status that better correlate with postoperative complications and the length of hospital stay in patients submitted to gastrointestinal or abdominal wall surgeries. METHODS This is a retrospective evaluation of 215 nutriti...

Malnutrition is a common, potentially serious and frequently undiagnosed condition among hospitalized elderly patients. It is important to determine the magnitude of malnutrition among hospitalized geriatric patients using anthropometric and biochemical indicators. This is a cross-sectional study involving the nutritional assessment of 181 subjects (98 women) aged 65 or older. These subjects we...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to investigate growth outcomes in term infants with weight faltering. METHODS Conditional weight gain was calculated on term infants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Cases of weight faltering were infants with a conditional weight gain below the fifth centile. Outcome growth measurements included weight and length/height (from 9 mo...