OBJECTIVE To verify the agreement between nutritional status perceived by mothers and that diagnosed in preschool children, by providing the differences according to children's sex and age. METHODS Study with data from a cohort of 269 preschool children assisted in public daycare centers of Campina Grande, Paraíba (Northeast Brazil). Children's information about their date of birth, sex and n...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Little is known about the nutritional status of critically ill children during hospitalisation in and after discharge from an intensive care unit. We set up a prospective, observational study to evaluate the nutritional status of children in an intensive care unit from admission up to 6 months after discharge. A secondary aim was identifying patient characteristics that influe...

INTRODUCTION Cachexia is a multifatorial syndrome characterized by loss of body weight, fat and muscle, increasing morbidity and mortality. The use of an index accounting for both serum albumin and C Reactive Protein levels could make early identification of cachexia easier. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the variation of an inflammatory nutritional index related to nutritional status in cancer patien...

ba ckground: although some studies have shown positive effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on nutritional status of cancer patients undergoing different treatments, there is no consistency in results. the aim of this study was to examine the effects of omega-3 fatty acid on the nutritional status of gastric cancer patients during the course of chemotherapy. m ethods : in a double-blin...

Materials and methods 303 children were included. There were 260 girls and 43 boys, aged 14.2±0.2 and 14.1±0.4 years, resp. In each girl or boy, the body height and mass was measured by using the standardized protocol. Individual BMI (kg/m2) was classified according to the established normal ageand gender-related range (Z-score) of limit for Polish children. The calculations were performed on b...

general population has been demonstrated for body size [2] and serum cholesterol [3] and has beeen postulated to be due to malnutrition [3]. We agree with Canavese et al that a great deal of research is still necessary regarding the biological mechanisms of homocysteine metabolism in patients with ESRD and their relationship to cardiovascular risk. The finding of differing TT genotype prevalenc...

Despite increased interest in the role of copper deficiency in clinical problems and an increased understanding of the physiological roles of copper, the diagnosis of a marginal deficiency has not been perfected. The use of non-standardized procedures and the effects of factors other than copper nutriture have impeded identification of the "ideal" indicator of copper nutritional status in adult...