BACKGROUND Achieving the Millennium Development Goals that aim to reduce malnutrition and child mortality depends in part on the ability of governments/policymakers to address nutritional status of children in general and those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS in particular. This study describes HIV prevalence in children, patterns of malnutrition by HIV status and determinants of nutritional s...

BACKGROUND A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the nutritional status of school children in Army School, Pune. METHODS Anthropometric survey of 760 school children was carried out and compared against the NCHS/WHO reference standards to determine their nutritional status. Associations of nutritional status with socio-economic status, education status of parents, mothers worki...

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...

  SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to assess the role of primary health services in improving general health of children in chat rood villages, Kerman, Iran, by comparing growth and nutritional status of 0-5 year children in 1980 and 1984. Nutritional status was assessed, using anthropometric methods; in 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1984. The results were as follows; 1)between 1980 and 1982, t...

i). To ascertain the nutritional status of children aged 9-12 years in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. ii). To find the factors responsible for nutritional deprivation. iii). To see the effects of nutritional status on physical development. iv). To find the impact of Mid Day Meal on the nutritional status of school going children. v). To suggest measures for the amelioration of poor educational st...

Background: Breast milk is important for the overall well-being of infants. Although lactation is relatively robust in the face of poor nutrition, the implication of poor nutrition on non-nutritive factors in breast milk is inconclusive. Objective: This study was designed to find associations between nutritional and immune factors in maternal blood and breast milk with the aim to improve the ne...

abstract background: osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease. the purpose of this study is to investigate the health belief model (hbm) and social cognitive theory (sct) for osteoporosis preventive nutritional behaviors in women. materials and methods: in this quasi‑experimental study, 120 patients who were women and registered under the health centers in fasa city, fars province...

The nutritional status of patients with head and neck cancer has been suspected as being a significant risk factor for surgical complications and cancer recurrence. Clinical dietary assessment was performed on a mixed group of 42 previously untreated, head and neck cancer patients scheduled to receive surgery with curative intent. Cox regression analysis was performed to investigate the relatio...