abstract background: nutrients meeting recommended dietary intakes take time to establish and once established are rarely maintained throughout hospital stay in preterm infants. methods: our purpose is to define the nutritional status and growth parameters of hospitalized patients at discharge in our hospital. data were obtained concerning all 50 infants born weighing < 1800 g and < 34 weeks of...

titanium dioxide nanocrystals were synthesized by sol-gel method at room temperature. titanium isoprophoxide and absolute ethanol were used as precursors to prepare the sol. the ph of the solution was adjusted by adding nitric acid and sodium hydroxide solution. the prepared tio2 nanocrystals were annealed at 325°c, 425°c and 525°c respectively. the effect of ph on the surface morphology and st...

india is one of the largest producers of onion in the world producing over 13,920,000 metric tons. storage is a major problem which leads to spoilage, and microbes play an important role in the spoilage. in this present study, biotechnologically important strains have been isolated from the spoiled onions by using appropriate enriched media. two potential strains were isolated and a brief compa...

introduction: laryngectomy in patients with laryngeal cancer can lead to the reduction of nutritional parameters. supportive treatments and supplementary nutritional supports are recommended in all patients undergoing laryngectomy, even with acceptable preoperative nutritional indices.the aim of this study was to evaluate postoperative changes in nutritional parameters in patients with laryngea...

Thirteen nutritional parameters viz body mass index (BMI), mid arm circumference (MAC), mid calf circumference (MCC), triceps skin fold thickness (TST), abdominal skin fold thickness (ASFT), abdominal girth at umbilicus (AG U), haemoglobin (Hb), total leucocytes count (WBC), absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), serum proteins (Prot.), serum albumin (AIb), serum total iron binding capacity (TIBC) an...

Introduction: Laryngectomy in patients with laryngeal cancer can lead to the reduction of nutritional parameters. Supportive treatments and supplementary nutritional supports are recommended in all patients undergoing laryngectomy, even with acceptable preoperative nutritional indices.The aim of this study was to evaluate postoperative changes in nutritional parameters in patients with larynge...

: fried products derived from potato, particularly potato crisp have been widely included in food basket of the households in the recent years in iran. potato crisp, among other products, is of great importance and is considered as competitive products. this product is in the list of the food products with high acrylamide content. therefore, due to the nutritional importance of this product and...

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...