BACKGROUND [corrected] Protein-calorie malnutrition is a frequent finding in patients with chronic liver disease, but investigations of nutritional status have been rarely performed in individuals seen at outpatient clinics AIM To evaluate the nutritional status of patients with alcoholic and nonalcoholic cirrhosis, attended for the first time at a reference outpatient clinic for liver diseas...

background: some studies have shown the possible role of protein‑energy malnutrition (pem) in persistence of endemic goiter in iodine replenished areas. the present study was conducted to assess the association between pem and goiter in schoolchildren of isfahan, iran. methods: in a cross‑sectional study using multistage cluster random‑sampling, 2331 schoolchildren with age ranged from 6‑13 yea...

Numerous publications show that, depending on the type of pathology, protein-energy malnutrition develops in 20– 50 % surgical patients directly hospital early postoperative period. Rather a great number with diseases are already hospitalized varying degrees malnutrition. From 30 to 69 admitted I–III grade and require mandatory nutritional support. Risk factors for development determined 60–70 ...

protein- energy malnutrition, wasting and inflammation are frequent complication among patients with end-stage renal disease (esrd). malnutrition is associated with cardiac co-morbidity, inflammation and poor survival in esrd patients. serum albumin is a well-known marker of nutrition in esrd patients. serum albumin is still the most commonly used nutritional marker in esrd patients. c-reactive...

BACKGROUND Serum retinol is the most commonly used indicator of vitamin A status. Retinol is transported in a 1-to-1 complex with retinol-binding protein (RBP). RBP is easy and inexpensive to measure, and studies have shown a high correlation between concentrations of RBP and concentrations of retinol. The performance of RBP in the context of infection or protein malnutrition, however, has not ...

in an attempt to depict the nutritional status of kurdish refugee children under five years of age. a rapid survey was conducted on 900 children in 9 camps of kurdistan and bakhtaran province in may 1991. the study included anthropometric measurements on all. clinical examination of 731, and biochemical tests for anemia and protein energy malnutrition (pem) on 160 subjects. the results showed h...

background: malnutrition is prevalent among patients hospitalized in intensive care units (icus) and causes various complications. dietary supplementation to provide appropriate nutritional support may reduce the malnutrition and complications through improvement in nutritional status. this study was carried out to assess the association between dietary supplementation and malnutrition among pa...