Background: Adequate nutrition during childhood is essential to promote child growth and development. Objective: The study evaluated the relationship of habitual nutrient intake protein adequacy prevalence malnutrition. Methods: Data were derived from a nationally representative sample children aged 6–12 years. Two nonconsecutive day 24-h dietary recalls (24hR) collected estimate...

CONTEXT Protein energy malnutrition constitutes a public health problem, especially in less affluent countries. The identification of amenable predictive risk factors is of major importance for policy makers to plan interventions to reduce infant malnutrition. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for protein energy malnutrition among hospitalized low-income children aged 6 to 24 months. TYPE ...

This study was undertaken to determine the following: 1) the kinetic changes responsible for the depletion and repletion of plasma transferrin (Tr) concentration in children with protein-energy malnutrition (PEM); 2) the role of infection in mediating these changes; and 3) whether plasma Tr concentration is related to body protein status. We measured plasma Tr concentration, and fractional (FSR...