BACKGROUND Few studies evaluated the association between nutritional disorders, quality of life and weight loss in patients undergoing bariatric surgery. AIM To identify nutritional changes in patients undergoing bariatric surgery and correlate them with weight loss, control of comorbidities and quality of life. METHOD A prospective cohort, analytical and descriptive study involving 59 pati...

The problem of diagnosing nutritional status disorders in septic patients remains unresolved. This is associated with the necessity of the introduction of newer and newer methods of assessing nutritional status, often requiring precise and expensive equipment as well as employment of professionals in this field in hospital wards, primarily including intensive care units (ICU). Methods that have...

Nutritional disorders associated with both forage and feed consump­ tion can have a large impact on the profitability of beef cattle operations. Forages are an important component of beef cattle production systems in Arkansas. Most cow­calf and stocker cattle enterprises in Arkansas rely heavily on forage­based nutritional programs. Forages are used for both livestock grazing and hay production...

Parts one and two of this series discussed nutritional and botanical treatments for cataracts, glaucoma, and retinal diseases (macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of the newborn, and retinitis pigmentosa). This review discusses nutritional treatments for asthenopia, blepharitis, chalazion, conjunctivitis (including giant papillary conjunctivitis), gyrate atrophy of the choro...

Diet is one of the mainstays of the treatment of patients with urea cycle disorders. The protein intake should be adjusted to take account of the inborn error and its severity and the patient's age, growth rate, and individual preferences. Currently, the widely used standards for protein intake are probably more generous than necessary, particularly for those with the more severe variants. Most...

Introduction Malnutrition is responsible for high morbidity and mortality in Ind school children who constitute particular victims. Children constitute nation’s human resource. Early detection and prompt management are essential to reduce their mortality percentage. Today measures for better nutrition in tribal communities Minister’s 20 point programme (1). It is well recognized that main ca ma...

Paper electrophoresis for studying the serum protein pattern is of particular value in infancy because of the small volume of blood required. Despite improved methods of diagnosis and increased knowledge of the aetiology of wasting disorders in infancy, some cases of failure to thrive still present diagnostic difficulties. Cases in which diarrhoea, respiratory infection and wasting are associat...

The authors state in the preface that tropical neurological disorders are not diseases of particular latitudes, but of particular deprivations. These diseases occur in the tropics because war, famine, poverty and oppression occur in the tropics. They point out that neurological diseases common in the tropics today were once common everywhere. However, this opening view does not serve as a platf...