BACKGROUND As a result of inappropriate feeding, poor health and hygiene, and poor caring practices, the nutritional status of many young infants deteriorates with advancing age. OBJECTIVE To explore the effectiveness of a nutrition education package to prevent malnutrition among young children. METHODS A community-based, randomized, controlled trial was conducted among 605 normal and mildl...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is closely related to inflammation and atherosclerosis in uraemic patients. There is still debate on how to quantify nutritional status in order to achieve the best prediction of mortality and hospitalization. METHODS Different methods to detect malnutrition were prospectively investigated for their prognostic impact on mortality and hospitalization of haemodialysis (H...

OBJECTIVE To estimate energy, nutrient intake and diet adequacy in school-aged children based on the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006 (ENSANUT 2006). MATERIAL AND METHODS Food intake data from food frequency questionnaires was analyzed for 8 716 children aged 5 to 11 years. Energy and nutrients intake and adequacy were obtained. Comparisons were made at regional, urban/rural ...

Data on 7668 children (0-72 months) and their 4621 mothers and 81 Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) collected for the USAID Assisted ICDS Evaluation Surveys were analysed. The results indicated that the major risk factors of nutritional blindness were lack of nutrition and health knowledge among mothers; presence of iron deficiency anemia in the children; and history of the child having had measles in t...

An international summit focusing on the difficult challenge of providing adequate nutrition for adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries was held in Portland, Oregon in 2015. Sixty-seven delegates from 17 countries agreed on a series of recommendations that would make progress toward improving the nutritional status of girls and young women in countries where their a...

Malnutrition seriously affects the health of elderly. The objective study is to determine variation nutritional status elderly with respect their socio economic and demographic characteristic. For this, a sample four hundred respondents have been selected randomly from Sunamgonj district in Bangladesh during 2019. Mini Nutrition Assessment Short Form (MNA-SF) used assess nutrition Percent frequ...

This study aims to investigate and describe the types formats of nutrition education interventions in colon cancer patients with a postoperative stoma examine effect on ostomate nutritional status. The method used is systematic review through article searches Google Scholar, ScienceDirect Proquest databases. results showed that there was significant improvement status patients. ostomates can ma...

This study describes numerous characteristics of comorbidities and geriatric syndromes in elderly osteoarthritis patients at the National Geriatrics Hospital. A cross-sectional on 184 knee (OA) aged ≥ 60 years old treated The mean age was 73.12 ± 8.62 years, male accounted for 83.7%. Most participants (85.9%) had experienced 2 sides OA, more than half these (63.6%) were experiencing moderate pa...