background: in recent decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased in iran and other countries. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of obesity and its associated factors among high school students of karaj city, iran. methods: a total of 700 students in different age groups were selected by random sampling method. the study samples were divided into 2 gr...

conclusions the results of the current study suggest that increasing the quality of the diet calculated according to hei can reduce the risk of coming down with cataract. patients and methods this case-control study was conducted on 97 patients with cataract and 198 healthy people (as a control group) in iran. individuals were selected by the convenience sampling method and the food frequency q...

There have been significant advances in the provision of enteral nutrition support in the acute and community healthcare settings.[...].

Objective: To assess the risk factors causing nutritional rickets among children in our part of world. Subjects And Methods: 47 children with rickets and 47 control children matched for age and sex were recruited over a 18 month period in a tertiary care hospital in northern kerala.Diagnosis was based on clinical, radiological, biochemical parameters and response to treatment. Children who pres...

Cancer has always a negative impact on nutritional status, weight loss being a common feature in patients with neoplastic diseases. If left untreated, weight loss may evolve into cancer cachexia, a complex syndrome characterized by marked depletion of body weight, associated with profound alterations of both nutritional status and metabolic homeostasis. Progressive wasting of skeletal muscle ma...

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases--ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease--are chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases of unknown etiology. Decreased oral intake, malabsorption, accelerated nutrient losses, increased requirements, and drug-nutrient interactions cause nutritional and functional deficiencies that require proper correction by nutritional therapy. The goals of the different forms ...

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease- are chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases of unknown etiology. Decreased oral intake, malabsorption, accelerated nutrient losses, increased requirements, and drug-nutrient interactions cause nutritional and functional deficiencies that require proper correction by nutritional therapy. The goals of the different forms...

objectives: the aim of this study was to assess nutritional status and identify the most significant mna-items (mini nutritional assessment) to accelerate the determination of nutritional risk of heart-failure in elderly patients. methods and materials: the present research was a cross-sectional descriptive analytical survey on hospitalized heart- failure elderly patients (n=225). the sampling ...

BACKGROUND Maintenance of a good nutritional status is associated with prolonged survival in many chronic diseases. To date, the nutritional status of outpatients with immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) amyloidosis has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to obtain information regarding the nutritional status of AL amyloidosis outpatients and to investigate its prognostic ro...