All children with moderate wasting, or moderate or severe stunting, have in common a higher risk of dying and the need for special nutritional support. In contrast to children suffering from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, there is no need to feed these children with highly fortified therapeutic foods designed to replace the family diet. Their dietary management should be based on i...

It is important to detect and treat malnutrition in hospital patients so as to improve clinical outcome and reduce hospital stay. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a nutrition screening tool with a simple and quick scoring system for acute hospital patients in Singapore. In this study, 818 newly admitted patients aged above 18 years old were screened using five parameters that c...

background: micronutrient deficiency is one of the major public health problems in the middle east affecting economic, political and social development of countries. the three commonest micronutrient deficiencies belong to iron, iodine and vitamin a.  methods: we conducted a systematic review of published english articles in the middle east countries using databases from pubmed, world health or...

Maternal malnutrition is common in the developing world and has detrimental effects on both the mother and infant. Pre-pregnancy nutritional status and weight gain during pregnancy are positively related to fetal growth and development. Internationally, there is no agreement on the method of diagnosis or treatment of moderate or severe malnutrition during pregnancy. Establishing clear guideline...

Background. One of the treatment modalities for facial fractures is closed reduction technique, but treatment with intermaxillary fixation (IMF) interferes with normal nutrition, and malnutrition can affect the patient's recovery. Anthropometric measurements such as skinfold thickness and body mass index (BMI) are universal indexes for diagnosing malnutrition. Therefore, in this study we explai...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the determinants of mild-to-moderate malnutrition in preschoolers. DESIGN Cross-sectional study conducted in October and November 1996, with a representative sample of 1740 children less than 5 years old from the city of Salvador, situated in the Brazilian Northeastern region. Socio-economic and dietary data were collected through a structured questionnaire. Anthropom...

BACKGROUND Although hospitalized children are at risk of malnutrition, routine screening of nutritional status has been hindered by lack of a validated nutritional assessment tool. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to develop a simple pediatric nutritional risk score that could be used at hospital admission to identify patients at risk of acute malnutrition during hospitalization. DESIGN Nutritional ri...

Doctors working in famine relief commonly use the weight:height ratio and the circumference of the mid-upper arm to assess the nutritional state of children under 5. Threshold values indicating moderate and severe malnutrition are usually taken as 80% and 70%, respectively, of the expected weight:height ratio and arm circumferences of 13.5 cm and 12.5 cm, respectively. A study of 1260 children ...