Malnutrition is a major underlying condition for mortality in children under five years of age in developing countries, particularly in Ethiopia. The most important forms of malnutrition in Ethiopia are protein and energy deficiencies. There is no reliable laboratory method at present to assess acute malnutrition. Transthyretin is a homotetrameric serum protein with half-life of two days. The m...

CONTEXT Both acute and chronic pancreatitis are associated with eating disorders, including malnutrition found in anorexia, bulimia, and major depression. CASE REPORT We report a case of a female patient suffering from severe malnutrition and anorexia with repeated attacks of pancreatic pain and an enlarging cystic lesion in the pancreatic head. Due to a progressively enlarging lesion on CT, ...

Two animal models of pain were used to study the effects of short-term protein malnutrition and environmental stimulation on the response threshold to aversive stimuli. Eighty male Wistar rats were used. Half of the pups were submitted to malnutrition by feeding their mothers a 6% protein diet from 0 to 21 days of age while the mothers of the other half (controls) were well nourished, receiving...

There is still a high burden of protein-energy malnutrition in Nigeria. The severe forms of the disease are usually associated with high level of mortality even in the tertiary health facilities. To review the cost-effective health promotional strategies at community levels that could aid prevention, early detection, and prompt treatment of protein-energy malnutrition. The strategy used for loc...

A direct comparison of systemic (spleen) and mucosal (intestine) antibody-producing systems was made in weanling male C57BL/6J mice subjected to wasting protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) by means of a low-protein protocol known to duplicate immunological and physiological features of human malnutrition. ELISA revealed low concentrations of biliary and gut lumen immunoglobulin (Ig) A in malnouri...

BACKGROUND Depending on the definition used, malnutrition is prevalent among 20-50% of hospitalized patients. Routine nutritional screening is necessary to identify patients with or at increased risk for malnutrition. The Nutrition Risk Screening (NRS 2002) has been recommended as an efficient tool to identify the risk of malnutrition in adult inpatients. OBJECTIVES To utilize the NRS 2002 to...

Wasting and other signs of protein-energy malnutrition are present in a large proportion of patients with chronic renal failure [1]. Although the nutritional status may improve in some patients after haemodialysis treatment is started, it deteriorates in others during long-term treatment. Indeed, energy malnutrition, manifest as reduced subcutaneous fat stores (low triceps skinfold thickness), ...

Loss OF weight with loss of body protein is not uncommon in malabsorption syndromes although severe hypoproteinaemia is rare. This paper briefly reviews the causes of protein malnutrition due to gastro-intestinal disease, describes the clinical features and discusses methods of treatment. The features of proteinlosing enteropathy will not be described as this subject was fully discussed at a si...