Nutrition is a key factor in host-pathogen defense. Malnutrition can increase both host susceptibility and severity of infection through a number of pathways, and infection itself can promote nutritional deterioration and further susceptibility. Nutritional status can also strongly influence response to vaccination or therapeutic pharmaceuticals. Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) have a lon...

Background and Objective: Patients may experience nutrition-related adverse events during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and long-term nutritional intervention was likely needed after cord blood transplantation (CBT) for HSCT due to the long engraftment period. Previous studies have examined nutritional therapy for HSCT but there has been no discussion of loss of body weight (LB...

BACKGROUND The school food environment is important to target as less healthful food and beverages are widely available at schools. This study examined whether the availability of specific food/beverage items was associated with a number of school environmental factors. METHODS Principals from elementary (n=369) and middle/high schools (n=118) in British Columbia (BC), Canada completed a surv...

Soybean meal (SBM), a commonly used protein source for animal feed, contains anti-nutritional factors such as trypsin inhibitor, phytate, oligosaccharides among others, which limit its utilization. Microbial fermentation using bacteria or fungi has the capability to improve nutritional value of SBM by altering the native composition. Both submerged and solid state fermentation processes can be ...

Sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass and function with ageing, is a multifactorial condition that slowly develops over decades and becomes a significant contributor to disability in the older population. Malnutrition and alterations in the muscle anabolic response to nutritional stimuli have been identified as potentially preventable factors that may significantly contribute to sarcopenia. In th...

PURPOSE The presence of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer and its treatment might aggravate patient nutritional status. Malnutrition is one of the major factors affecting the postoperative course. We evaluated changes in perioperative nutritional status and risk factors of postoperative severe malnutrition in the GI cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nutritional status was prospectively evalua...

The toxicity due to the consumption of various forages is very common among the farm animals. The anti-nutritional factors present in the forages are mainly responsible for this. In this review paper, the common anti-nutritional factors viz., nitrates, oxalates, HCN and tannins present in different fodder crops have been discussed with reference to their toxic levels, symptoms and preventive me...

Early oral feeding is the preferred mode of nutrition for surgical patients. Avoidance of any nutritional therapy bears the risk of underfeeding during the postoperative course after major surgery. Considering that malnutrition and underfeeding are risk factors for postoperative complications, early enteral feeding is especially relevant for any surgical patient at nutritional risk, especially ...

The current study aims to investigate the effect of food particles on ruminants' digestibility. Among the ruminants, the size of the nutritional particles is regarded as one of the most significant factors for the digestibility and absorption of the nutritional materials. Also, the size of the nutritional materials has a significant effect on the chewing process which ultimately leads to the ef...

AIMS Prevalence of malnutrition is a common and serious issue responsible for the morbidity and mortality rate among hospitalized patients. We aimed to provide an actual and comprehensive situation of the nutritional characteristics, nutritional support and the risk factors for malnutrition among hospitalized patients in China. METHODS We analyzed the data from nutritionDay audit 2016 in Chin...