Background. Malnutrition in hospitalized children can be prevented if children with risk of malnutrition are identified. Every hospital is recommended to have a standard nutritional screening tool. Numerous simple screening tools have been developed, namely Paediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score (PYMS), Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Paediatrics (STAMP), and Screening Tool...

Childhood malnutrition is currently diagnosed by comparing children’s anthropometric measurements to the median of international references (NCHS [1]) for their age and sex, and expressing the results in standard deviation scores (SDs) [2]. Moderate underweight is weight < 2 SDs, moderate stunting is height < 2 SDs, moderate wasting is weight-for-height < 2 SDs and severe is < 3 SDs. All these ...

Objective: To find out the prevalence and risk factors of primary malnutrition among children below 5 years age visiting outpatient department a tertiary care hospital. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place duration: Department Pediatric Medicine, Ibn-e-Siena Hospital, Multan from 1st January 2022 to 30th June 2022. Methodology: total 151 either gender aged pediatrics. At time enrollment...

BACKGROUND [corrected] Protein-calorie malnutrition is a frequent finding in patients with chronic liver disease, but investigations of nutritional status have been rarely performed in individuals seen at outpatient clinics AIM To evaluate the nutritional status of patients with alcoholic and nonalcoholic cirrhosis, attended for the first time at a reference outpatient clinic for liver diseas...

BACKGROUND A new analytical variation of bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA), called specific BIVA, has shown to be more accurate in detecting changes in fat mass than classic BIVA. OBJECTIVE To compare classic and specific BIVA in order to identify which is more strongly associated with psycho-functional and nutritional indicators in a group of institutionalised elderly patients w...

Objective: To assess the magnitude of malnutrition in hemodialysis patients Pakistan and identify contributing factors order to facilitate timely interventions improve their quality life. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at nephrology inpatient department Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi from April September 2021. The included aged 15–60 years, both genders, wh...