Assessment of Japanese healthy children’s nutritional status using Waterlow classification

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Assessment of copper nutritional status.

Despite increased interest in the role of copper deficiency in clinical problems and an increased understanding of the physiological roles of copper, the diagnosis of a marginal deficiency has not been perfected. The use of non-standardized procedures and the effects of factors other than copper nutriture have impeded identification of the "ideal" indicator of copper nutritional status in adult...

Issues in the assessment of nutritional status using anthropometry.

Four issues in the use and interpretation of anthropometry are discussed at the level of the population and of the individual. The first issue is the index or indices of choice: weight-for-height versus height-for-age versus weight-for-age. The selection of an index or indices depends upon many factors, and no one index is completely adequate in all situations. Proposed criteria are provided to...

nutritional status using multidimensional assessment in iranian elderly

background: nutrition is an important determinant of health in elderly and nutritional assessment is necessary for development of treatment protocols. the study aimed to evaluate nutritional status using multidimensional assessment in elderly. methods: one hundred fourteen subjects (76 men and 64 women) from elderly residence house in kermanshah, western iran were studied. data was collected us...

Clinical and laboratory assessment of nutritional status.