BACKGROUND Children with congenital heart disease are at increased risk of malnutrition. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of wasting, underweight and stunting among children with congenital heart disease attending Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda. METHODS A cross-sectional study among 194 children aged 0-15 years was conducted between August 2013 and March 2014. A...

When an emergency occurs, and large numbers of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are to be treated, programme managers have to know, usually within a short period of time, the number of SAM children they will have to treat in the next few months (usually in the next 12 months). This is needed in particular for funding requests, as the number of patients to be treated has a direct im...

background malnutrition is the most common cause of immune deficiency. it results in reduced secretion of t-cells and b-cell-stimulating factors leading to declining of special immunoglobulins. on the other hand, hepatitis b, as a major world health problem, can be prevented effectively by vaccination. three doses of hepatitis b virus (hbv) vaccine induce protective levels of anti-hepatitis b s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence, profile and predictors of severe malnutrition in children with congenital heart defects (CHDs). DESIGN Case-control, observational study. SETTING Tertiary teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria (March 2006 to March 2008). PARTICIPANTS Children aged 3-192 months with uncorrected symptomatic CHD and healthy controls, frequency matched for age and sex. ...

Severe malnutrition, both protein-energy and micronutrient deficiency, results in decreased activity, but the results regarding mild-to-moderate malnutrition are equivocal. Our objective in this investigation was to describe the activity and exploratory behavior of Mexican infants and describe the relationship among nutritional status, activity, and exploration in this population at high risk f...

background: increased incidence and severity of acute lower respiratory tract infection (alri) are variably associated with malnutrition. objectives: we aimed to examine the prevalence of malnutrition in under-five year old hospitalized children with alri. patients and methods: children aged from 6 to 60 months, mostly from a low socioeconomic population, admitted with alri, were enrolled prosp...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, malnutrition still represents a health concern expressed mainly as stunting and micronutrient deficiencies, lessening the attention given to acute malnutrition (moderate and severe); however, the latter has a high fatality rate. Ending these avoidable deaths represents a major health and ethical challenge in the region. Acute malnutrition plus infections (mai...

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...