The "cycle of violence" hypothesis suggests that a childhood history of physical abuse predisposes the survivor to violence in later years. This study reveals that victims of neglect are also more likely to develop later criminal violent behavior as well. This finding gives powerful support to the need for expanding common conceptions of physical abuse. If it is not only violence that begets vi...

With the recognition of the close link between nutritional status and pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis (CF), treatment and prevention of malnutrition have become a major focus in the modern therapeutic approach for patients with CF. Thereby, pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy plays a central role. This article reviews key publications on important aspects of pancreatic enzyme replacemen...

More than two decades ago, bronchiectasis unrelated to cystic fibrosis (CF) was termed “Orphan disease”, because it had become an uncommon clinical entity among children in the developed world. It is more common among children in lower socioeconomic classes and in developing countries, due to more frequent recurrent respiratory infections, environmental airway irritants, poor immunization, and ...

Undernutrition prevention or detection for disabled or elderly people must be performed rapidly to avoid irremediable consequences. In this paper a classification of uncertainties centered on a meal notion is first proposed. Two of these uncertainties are developed in a smart home and homecare context. Meal preparation probability is evaluated by a simulation based on Naïve Bayesian Networks. T...

Introduction: To address the high malnutrition rates in Sub Saharan Africa, most programs addressing have continuously been streamlined through health system, yet this has not yielded results as expected. On other hand, education sector shown an immense capacity to some challenges, such eliminating short-term hunger School feeding programs. Yet, little attention given teachers far implementing ...

Aging has significant effects on the healing ability of the geriatric population. When the elderly suffer injuries, they have a decreased metabolic reserve to handle the stress required to recover. Diseases of the elderly, such as malnutrition, diabetes mellitus, treatment of malignancies, and vascular disease, all impair tissue repair. The geriatric population is more prone to pressure ulcers,...

Kenya belongs to a high incidence region known as Africa's esophageal cancer (EC) corridor. It has one of the highest incidence rates of EC worldwide, but research on EC in Kenya has gone highly unnoticed. EC in Kenya is unique in its high percentage of young cases (< 30 years of age). In this review, we show the current status of EC in the country. We mainly focus on significant risk factors s...

conclusions according to high prevalence of malnutrition in our patients with esrd undergoing hemodialysis, periodic assessment of nutritional status is necessary in them. meanwhile we found sga as the best tool to assess nutritional status in patients with esrd undergoing hemodialysis, because it can recognize various degrees of malnutrition that may remain undetected by a single laboratory as...

bed sore in icu    r ghanee [1] , msc h gavami [2] , msc  received: 6 april, 2010 accepted: 24 may, 2010 abstract  background & aims: a fter cancer and cardiovascular diseases, pressure ulcers are the third costly disorders. most common causes of pressure ulcers development are age over 70 years, being male, white skin, smoking, low body mass index, impaired mobility, altered mental status, uri...