Dans la poésie d’Alain Mabanckou, le discours de l’exil est constamment marqué par double sentiment déréliction et d’espoir du poète. Cette dualité s’exprime dans son œuvre poétique Les arbres aussi versent des larmes à travers technique deixis comme ancrage multimodal indice littérarité singulière. Partant ce postulat, présente contribution se propose montrer comment l’analyse stylistique mult...

BACKGROUND Various anthropometric indicators can be used as predictors of cardiovascular risk in the elderly. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the predictive capacity of anthropometric measurements in identifying cardiovascular risk in elderly patients at the Family Health Strategy of Viçosa-MG. METHODOLOGY This was a cross-sectional epidemiological study with 349 elderly persons. Cardiovascular risk was...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a combination of a selected but limited number of anthropometric measurements predicts visceral adipose tissue (VAT) better than other anthropometric measurements, without resort to medical imaging. HYPOTHESIS Abdominal anthropometric measurements are total abdominal adipose tissue indicators and global measures of VAT and SAAT (subcutaneous abdominal adipose ...

background: reference percentile curves are usually used as a screening tool to determine growth disorders. anthropometric indices are population-dependent and may differ according to ethnicity, dietary pattern and lifestyle habits. this study aims to compare the curves of anthropometric measures obtained in two national studies conducted among iranian children and adolescents in 2003-2004 and ...

objective malnutrition is commonly considered as an important risk factor that can produce a negative influence on the prognosis of patients with chronic neurological diseases. we aimed to evaluate the nutritional status of patients admitted to the neurology ward of mofid children's hospital via subjective and objective methods. materials & methods 61 children (2-6 years of age) who were consec...