BACKGROUND AND AIMS In patients with liver cirrhosis, protein-energy malnutrition is a frequent finding and a risk factor influencing survival. The aim was to estimate the effects of an adequate diet on malnutrition and clinical outcome in patients with Child A or B HCV-related liver cirrhosis. METHODS We enrolled 90 consecutive outpatients (M/F=52/38) with liver cirrhosis, 30 in Child class ...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a framework for measuring the progress of nations. Several of these goals relate to child malnutrition, which remains an important contributor to child morbidity and mortality, accounting for approximately 45% of child deaths globally. A high proportion of undernourished children still live in Africa and parts of Asia, and the uneven rate of reduc...

In the late 1980's child malnutrition was still prevalent in Brazil, and child obesity was beginning to rise in the richest regions of the country. To assess the extent of the nutritional transition during the period and the influence of birth weight and maternal smoking on the nutritional condition of schoolchildren, we estimated the prevalence of excess weight and malnutrition in a cohort of ...

BACKGROUND From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, United Nations (UN) agencies were focused on protein malnutrition as the major worldwide nutritional problem. The goal of this review is to examine this era of protein malnutrition, the reasons for its demise, and the aftermath. SUMMARY The UN Protein Advisory Group was established in 1955. International conferences were largely concerned about prot...

INTRODUCTION Recent estimates suggest that malnutrition (measured as poor anthropometric status) is associated with about 50% of all deaths among children. Although the association between malnutrition and all-cause mortality is well documented, the malnutrition-related risk of death associated with specific diseases is less well described. We reviewed published literature to examine the eviden...

Background: From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, United Nations (UN) agencies were focused on protein malnutrition as the major worldwide nutritional problem. The goal of this review is to examine this era of protein malnutrition, the reasons for its demise, and the aftermath. Summary: The UN Protein Advisory Group was established in 1955. International conferences were largely concerned about prot...

Malnutrition is a grave threat to maternal and child health across the world with its most of the victims observed in the developing nations. It is the condition that results from consuming a diet in which certain nutrients are lacking. A miserable picture of malnutrition and under-nutrition is prevalent among mothers and children in rural areas on one hand and slums and shanties of the urban a...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: Despite the fact that UNICEF declared freedom from hunger and malnutrition a basic human right in 1948, more than 20 million children were severely malnourished in 2010 and a further 170 million were stunted. Malnutrition attributes to >50% of child dea...