BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an emerging health public problem in Brazil. Nutritional counseling with focus on protein restriction is a promising strategy to treatment of nondialysis CKD patients due its effects on slowing renal loss. However, Brazilian people have high protein intake, which is a challenge when low protein diet (LPD) should be prescribed. This review describes a p...

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...

Medication adherence is a complex behaviour with multiple determinants. Understanding the barriers and facilitators of adherence is invaluable for programme improvement, which assists the foundation of adherence intervention strategies. A qualitative study was conducted in six selected hospitals of Addis Ababa in 2008, to explore barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral medication adherence ...

BACKGROUND Obesity has become a common nutritional concern among low-income, preschool children, a primary target population of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Nutrition counseling efforts in WIC target childhood obesity, but new approaches are needed that address the different perceptions about obesity that are held by clients and health care ...

introduction: glutaric academia type i is a metabolic disorder that is caused due to deficiency of glutaryl-coa dehydrogenase. macrocephaly is a common sign in ga1, although many infants usually appear healthy at birth.   case report a 5.5 year old boy with ga1was admitted to nicu. chief compliance of patient for hospitalization was pneumonia and sepsis and he was intubated and mechanically ven...