Abstract. Malnutrition is one of the most prevalent problems in older people, but there is little information about the nutritional status of the older women in China. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the nutritional status and clinically correlated factors for malnutrition in older Han women in China. In total, 2,556 hospital- and community-based Han women aged 60 years or ol...

Over the next several years, the number of patients who will have had bariatric surgery for morbid obesity will reach close to a million. Several well-described nutritional problems such as B12 and iron deficiency will be noted in these patients. Many of these patients will be lost to the original surgeon and will now be in the care of the "other physicians." These and other mineral and vitamin...

Cancer involving the alimentary tract may produce signifi cant effects on the nutritional status of the patient. The organs in the gastrointestinal system are among the most metabolically active in the body. Consequently, food depni Vation may adversely affect absorptive capacity and contrib ute to malabsorption by its effect on intestinal mucosal enzymes. Mucosal changes associated with malnut...

Background: Improper nutritional knowledge is one of the most important causes of nutritional problems, which can affect practice and cause more complications. The aim of this study was to assess the association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of Iranian households with socioeconomic status (SES).   Methods: The study population was 14,136 households (57 clust...

The concept of providing nutritional models of fetal development appears superficially to be inappropriate as the nutritional environment of prenatal life is thought to be highly controlled (Battaglia & Meschia, 1978; Bassett & Fletcher, 1982; Meschia, 1982). Nevertheless, the fetus responds to changes in maternal diet, to starvation and to reductions in maternal placental blood flow (Girard et...

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CARE Bangladesh’s Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) sector currently implements a number of projects targeted at food-insecure farm households to enhance the livelihood security of beneficiary farmers (see Table 1). These projects work with targeted land-poor male and female farmers to build their capacity to innovate for increasing, diversifying, and sustaining farm production in an envi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Many patients in hospitals are undernourished and nutritional care is inadequate in most hospitals. The aim of this investigation was to gain insight into how this situation could be improved. METHODS Seven hundred and fifty randomly selected patients were screened at admission in three hospitals and surveyed during their entire hospitalization. Each time a patient was not...

Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) is common in connection with chronic disease and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Because the risk of PEM is related to the degree of illness, the causal connections between malnutrition and a poorer prognosis are complex. It cannot automatically be inferred that nutritional support will improve the clinical course of patients with wasting ...