AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to compare five commonly used malnutrition screening tools against an acknowledged definition of malnutrition in one hospital inpatient sample. BACKGROUND Early identification and intervention of malnutrition in hospital patients may prevent later complications. Several screening tools have reported their diagnostic accuracy, but the criterion ...

OBJECTIVE Malnutrition is one of the important health problems throughout the world, particularly in developing countries, which has undesirable effects on mental and physical health of children. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of malnutrition in children under 6 years old in Privince South Khorasan, Iran, in 2007. METHODS This cross sectional and descriptive analytical s...

The study analyzed data from a systematic sample of children, aged less than five years, who presented with persistent diarrhoea (diarrhoea of more than 14 days duration). It aims to differentiate (a) non-severe persistent diarrhoea (with no or mild dehydration) and (b) severe persistent diarrhoea (with moderate or severe dehydration), and to identify individual characteristics associated with ...

Strategies for preventing undernutrition comprise a range of interventions, including education, provision of complementary food and cash transfer. Here, we compared monthly distributions of two different lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS), large-quantity LNS (LNS-LQ) and medium-quantity LNS (LNS-MQ) for 15 months on prevention of undernutrition among children 6 to 23 months. Both groups al...

the patients evaluated in this study were classified into three groups of severe, moderate, and mild according to the severity of exposure to sulfur mustard. we evaluated the immunological and cytogenetical status of the patients after eight years of their exposure to sulfur mustard. the investigations revealed that the number of neutrophils, lymphocytes and monocytes in the patients with sever...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is common in the developing world and associated with disease and mortality. Because malnutrition frequently occurs among children in the community as well as those with acute illness, and because anthropometric indicators of nutritional status are continuous variables that preclude a single definition of malnutrition, malnutrition-attributable fractions of admissions an...

Severe protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) predisposes affected children to various infections, which either worsens their nutritional status or causes malnutrition, hence complicating their management and outcome. This study was carried out to determine the infections associated with severe malnutrition among children admitted at Kilifi District Hospital (KDH) in Kenya and Muhimbili National Hos...

Introduction : Malnutrition in pregnant women disrupts the First Thousand Days of Life (DOL). DOL is known as Window Opportunity or Golden Period, which occurs for 1000 to improve children's growth and development optimally. Disturbances that arise during this period will impact survival child child’s development, permanent. However, malnutrition can be prevented by early intervention. Therefor...