BACKGROUND Dietary counseling is an integral part of treating malnutrition. A first step toward improving the management of moderate malnutrition is to evaluate dietary messages in current programs and assess their adequacy and effectiveness. OBJECTIVES To ascertain current recommendations regarding family foods for the treatment of moderate malnutrition and assess whether these are likely to...

Both amniotic fluid and urine of newborns contain .hydroxyproline, an amino-acid related to the collagen metabolism and particularly the collagen matrix. Phases of rapid growth of the human body are accompanied by a high collagen turnover resulting in an increased excretion of hydroxyproline in the urine, whereas malnourishment and retarded growth lead to a diminished output [11,15]. In normal ...

Earlier studies from the authors' laboratory showed that malnourishment induces alterations in the cardiovascular homeostasis increasing the basal mean arterial pressure and heart rate. In this study, the authors evaluated whether the sympathetic and parasympathetic efferent activities contribute to changes in the cardiovascular homeostasis through altered modulation of the arterial baroreflex ...

BACKGROUND Nutrition is one of the important components of health, functional independence and quality of life in elderly population. In this age group, malnutrition is common and the risk of malnutrition increases with the advancing age. Nutritional status acts as a modifying factor in the development of many oral diseases. AIM To assess the relationship of salivary factors, dental caries an...

Candida-associated denture stomatitis is the most common form of oral candidal infection, with Candida albicans being the principal etiological agent. Candida adheres directly or via an intermediary layer of plaque-forming bacteria to denture acrylic. Despite antifungal therapy to treat denture stomatitis, infection is reestablished soon after the treatment ceases. In addition, many predisposin...

Malnutrition affects cardiovascular reflexes, including chemoreflex and baroreflex. In this study we assessed the hypothesis that malnourishment changes the responses in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) evoked from Bezold-Jarisch reflex (BJR). Fischer rats were fed diets containing either (6% malnourished or 14% control) protein for 35 da...

China, whose population has grown from 556 million in 1950 to 1.3 billion today, has grown tremendously in the last century, internationally, economically, and socially. The Chinese economy’s growth is 7-8% per year according to statistics by the Chinese government, and is among the fastest growing internationally. It is because of China’s growing role today that it is important to focus on thi...

Patients with AIDS have a high incidence of skin problems due to the immunosuppression and malnourishment that are inherent to the progression of this disease. Clinical manifestation of these skin lesions and their severity are different in AIDS patients. We made a prospective study of five cases of measles in children with HIV infection during a community outbreak, and there were typical as we...