Bangladesh typifies many south-eastern countries where female children experience inferior health and uncertain survival, especially after the neonatal period. This paper attempts to study the gender inequality in nutritional status and the effects of various socioeconomic, demographic, and health-programme factors on gender inequality in a remote rural area of Bangladesh. Measurements of mid-u...

Several related demographic trends are occurring in developing countries: youth comprise a large portion of populations, fertility rates are declining, and urban dwellers are increasing. As fertility rates decline and populations age, the decline in the ratio of young dependents to working age adults is expected to free up household resources, which can be invested in human capital, including y...

Background: Malnutrition is commonly reported among hospitalized paediatric patients. However, it often not diagnosed leading toprolonged hospital staysand other medical complications. Objective: This study aimed at evaluating the validity ofthe Screening Tool for Risk of Nutritional Status and Growth (STRONGkids) mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)for assessing malnutrition in inpatients betwee...

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus are autoimmune, chronic progressive diseases, which can be get worst in the presence of muscle mass loss due to physical inactivity continuous inflammatory. Therefore, estimate body composition assist treatment these diseases. Objective: To evaluate correlation index with handgrip strength adductor pollicis thickness elderly pa...

The purpose of this observational study with a convenience sample is to validate simple measurement the mid-upper arm circumference establish screening points using tape (MUAC) for childhood overweight and obesity between 9 12 years age, or from 4th grade 6th grade. Prior study, pilot validation MUAC measure versus anthropometric standard was carried out. total cut-offs 360 school students. res...

Anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. However, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. During recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...

Currently there is no consensus on how to identify pregnant women as acutely malnourished and when to enroll them in nutritional programmes. Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland undertook a literature review with the purpose of determining values of anthropometric indicators for acute malnutrition that are associated with adverse birth outcomes (such as low birth weight (LBW)), pre-term birth a...

Background Adoption of 3D imaging systems in humanitarian settings requires accuracy comparable with manual measurement notwithstanding additional constraints associated austere settings. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the child stature and mid–upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurements produced by AutoAnthro system (third generation) developed Body Surface Translations Inc. Methods A ...

Background: An estimated one-third of the world’s children who are wasted live in India. In Bihar state, of children,5 y old, 27.1% are wasted and 8.3% have severe acute malnutrition (SAM). In 2009, M edecins Sans Fronti eres (MSF) initiated a community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) program for children aged 6–59 mo with SAM. Objective: In this report, we describe the characteri...