The study of nutritional status based on mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) among pre-school children in India is very limited. Therefore, a study was carried out from February to June 2006 in three municipal wards of the North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India, to determine the nutritional status based on MUAC among urban, poor pre-school children. Undernutrition was defined based on ag...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition constitutes a public health problem throughout the world and particularly in developing countries. AIMS The objective of the study is to assess the impact of an elementary integrator composed of Spiruline (Spirulina platensis) and Misola (millet, soja, peanut) produced at the Centre Medical St Camille (CMSC) of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on the nutritional status of un...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a school nutrition programme on the weight gain and growth of Vietnamese schoolchildren. DESIGN A proximate cluster evaluation of children in seven schools, in which fortified milk and biscuits supplying 300 kcal of energy were being given on school days, compared with children in 14 nearby schools with no feeding. All children were dewormed. SETTI...

Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread quite widely across the distribution of household wealth and consumption. While the expected positive househol...

1. Preschool children and schoolchildren from a rural area in the northeast of Thailand were compared with children from urban areas for prealbumin, albumin, transferrin, alpha 1 B-glucoprotein, the acute-phase reactants alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, haptoglobin and the proteinase inhibitors alpha 1-protease inhibitor (A1PI) as well as alpha 2-microglobulin (alpha 2M). Ur...

A cross sectional study on 101 mothers and their last child (58 males and 43 females) aged upto 5 years was undertaken among Shabar tribal community in Khurda and Cuttack districts of Orissa. The study aimed to determine the association and effect of breastfeeding practices on child undernutrition along with some socio-economic and socio-demographic variables. Weight & mid upper arm circumferen...

AIM Hospitalised children have higher rates of undernutrition. Early detection of at-risk patients could lead to prompt preventative or corrective interventions. Several nutritional risk screening tools are available for screening hospitalised children including the STRONGkids tool. This study was designed to assess the usefulness of STRONGkids when applied by nurses rather than a paediatrician...