Histoplasmosis is a mycosis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum, dimorphic fungus endemic to areas with nitrogen-rich soil, like the one contaminated bird and bat excrement. Patients deficient immune response are especially at risk for developing invasive infections, such as disseminated histoplasmosis, secondary immunodeficiency can be consequence of malnutrition. This case report presents 15-mon...

Maintaining a sustainable socio-ecological state of a river delta requires delivery of material and energy fluxes to its body and coastal zone in a way that avoids malnourishment that would compromise system integrity. We present a quantitative framework for studying delta topology and transport based on representation of a deltaic system by a rooted directed acyclic graph. Applying results fro...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We seek to collect, review, evaluate, and synthesize the current literature focusing on all published methods of pediatric weight estimation. METHODS We conducted a literature review using PubMed and Web of Science databases, and the Google Scholar search engine, with the "similar articles" feature, as well as review of the bibliographies of identified studies. We excluded stu...

Japan was struck by two catastrophic disasters on March 11, 2011 and on April 16, 2016. The former was the Great East Japan Earthquake (M9.0) and the latter was the Kumamoto Earthquake (M7.0). Most inhabitants in the affected areas of both disasters were forced to live in evacuation centers right after the earthquake. Poor oral hygiene, inactivity, malnourishment, appetite loss, eating problems...

A new life history model of the Lynn–Flynn effect is presented based on the idea that life history speed is primarily associated with a trade-off between positive manifold strength (fast life history) and differentiation with respect to abilities (slow life history) rather than individual differences in levels of g (which instead function as a fitness indicator and are associated with pleiotrop...

Context: Malnutrition is the major public health problem in many developing countries such as India. Government of India started Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres (NRC) to rehabilitate the severe acute malnourished children. Aim: The aim of the present study is to assess the effectiveness of nutritional intervention measures in NRC. Methodology: It is a hospital based observational study using...

OBJECTIVE To identify predisposing factors for peripheral intravenous puncture failure in children. METHODS Cross-sectional cohort study conducted with 335 children in a pediatric ward of a university hospital after approval of the ethics committee. The Wald Chi-squared, Prevalence Ratio (PR) and backward procedure (p≤0.05) tests were applied. RESULTS Success of peripheral intravenous punct...

BACKGROUND Child and infant malnourishment is a significant and growing problem in the developing world. Malnourished children are at high risk for negative health outcomes over their lifespans. Philani, a paraprofessional home visiting program, was developed to improve childhood nourishment. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether the Philani program can rehabilitate malnourished ch...

Introduction The term Orthorexia derives from the Greek “ortho – correct” and “orexis appetite”; Nervosa is a pathological fixation with healthy eating that, starting idea to obtain maximum health proper diet, leads malnourishment other medical sequelae, loss of relationships, self-esteem, poor quality life in general. Orthorexia, despite receiving broad empirical evidence, not currently includ...