OBJECTIVE To study the co morbidities in hospitalized children with severe acute malnourishment. METHODS 104 severe acute malnourished children were included. RESULTS 54% had diarrhea and 27.8% had acute respiratory tract infections. Tuberculosis was diagnosed in 22% of cases (60.8% cases in children 6-12 mo old). Malaria and Measles were diagnosed in 3.8% each, and HIV infection was seen i...

Grid computing incorporates dispersed resources to work out composite technical, industrial, and business troubles. Thus a capable scheduling method is necessary for obtaining the objectives of grid. The disputes of parallel computing are commencing with the computing resources for the number of jobs and intricacy, craving, resource malnourishment, load balancing and efficiency. The risk stumbl...

Osteomalacia is usually neglected when compared with other metabolic bone diseases and may present with a variety of clinical and radiographic manifestations mimicking other musculoskeletal disorders. It is a known cause of persistent, nonspecific musculoskeletal pain. A 35 year old female was admitted with generalized aches and pains for the last two years. She was of thin stature with a BMI o...

India gives utmost importance to alleviate malnourishment, health problems in order to reach low Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) & Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) as indicated in Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Andhra Pradesh with the support of World Bank has brought a unique model namely Community Managed Nutrition cum Day Care Centres (...

Wernicke’s encephalopathy (WE) is a neurological disorder associated with thiamine deficiency (1). Patients may present with a classic triad of symptoms consisting of altered mental status, ataxia, and ocular dysfunction. Diagnosis can be difficult as clinical presentation is not typical in certain cases. WE is curable if thiamine is administered parenterally early in the course of the disease,...

Reduction of food intake without malnourishment extends life span in many different organisms. The majority of work in this field has been performed in rodents where it has been shown that both restricting access to the entire diet and restricting individual dietary components can cause life-span extension. Thus, for insights into the mode of action of this intervention, it is of great interest...

The rapidly growing world population and rising consumption of biofuels intensify demands for both food and biofuels. This exaggerates food and fuel shortages. The use of food crops such as corn grain to produce ethanol raises major nutritional and ethical concerns. Nearly 60% of humans in the world are currently malnourished, so the need for grains and other basic foods is critical. Growing cr...

Malnutrition has become a dangerously common problem in children with chronic liver disease, negatively impacting neurocognitive development and growth. Furthermore, many children with chronic liver disease will eventually require liver transplantation. Thus, this association between malnourishment and chronic liver disease in children becomes increasingly alarming as malnutrition is a predicto...

Some women in rural Pakistan are chronically undernourished, and consequently underweight. Concerns have been expressed that the degree of undernourishment might be sufficiently severe to affect lactation performance. We have obtained data on maternal body composition and infant breast milk intake using stable isotope methods in a group of thirty three mother and infant pairs at approximately s...