CMAJ • NOVEMBER 23, 2010 • 182(17) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1831 We have intuitively known for a long time that poor nutritional status in disease is associated with mor bidity and mortality. Only recently, however, have studies provided evidence of an association between poor nutritional status and prolonged hospital stay, decreased quality of life, and increased mo...

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...

Introduction: Children are one of the most vulnerable groups to sub-optimal nutritional intake in most societies. We have investigated some of the potential determinants of malnutrition in children of 2-5 years of age.   Methods and Materials: A cross sectional study was conducted to determine the relationship between nutritional status (weight for age, height for age and weight for height) and...

A survey was carried out to assess the nutritional status of 2-3 year old rural children and some factors affecting it in the rural areas of Kerman. All of the 25-36 month old children (i.e., 1015 children) under coverage of primary health care center were included in the study. About one -third of the children’s mothers (334 mothers) were questioned. The data were collected using questionnaire...