Abstract Introduction Dietary restrictions are implemented upon renal inpatients considering their predisposition to electrolyte abnormalities from failure. A similar affiliation in urology wards is assumed due patient profiles. Minimal awareness exists for low potassium alternatives on the catering menu. We aimed review understanding and utilisation of diets amongst healthcare professionals ou...

OBJECTIVE To describe trainee healthcare professionals' preferred terms when talking about obesity, their beliefs about initiating discussions about weight, and their confidence about consulting with obese people. METHODS A self-completed questionnaire collected data on demographics, preferred terms, beliefs about initiation of discussions, confidence and training needs from 1036 pre-registra...

Type 1 diabetes is an unusual disease to treat because of the significant role of patient in his or her own therapy. Children and adolescents, who depend on parental and/or familial support, are in an especially difficult situation: their age and rapidly changing somatic and psychological development introduces great complexity into their ability to self-manage their diabetes in an aware and re...

Research on blogs’ role in public relations about animal agriculture production is limited at best. This case study set out to describe the characteristics of selected bloggers’ writing protein-related topics and issues, with a special focus how protein industry was represented, what themes were most common, tonal blog posts were. Researchers used content analysis approach 37 from eight purposi...

Background: An increasing number of parents report problems with feeding their children to dieticians. Failure expand the diet or sudden discontinuation a variety foods makes them increasingly worried about child's monotonous and mealtime behavior The aim this study was assess parents' awareness food neophobia attitudes behaviors associated it.
 Material method: carried out using questionn...

BACKGROUND Audits have shown numerous deficiencies in the quality of hypertension and diabetes primary care in Barbados, despite distribution of regional guidelines. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and practices, and the barriers faced by primary care practitioners in Barbados concerning the recommendations of available diabetes and hypertension guidelines. METHODS Focus...

BACKGROUND Shared decision-making (SDM) is at the core of patient-centered care. We examined whether young adults with type 1 diabetes perceived the clinician groups they consulted as practicing SDM. METHODS In a web-based survey, 150 Australians aged 18-35 years and with type 1 diabetes rated seven aspects of SDM in their interactions with endocrinologists, diabetes educators, dieticians, an...

Background: In the current literature different diagnosis and treatment strategies for chyle leak after pancreatic surgery are described. 2017, International Study Group Pancreatic Surgery defined a consensus-based definition diagnosis. However, consensus on optimal strategy is lacking. Aim: The aim of this multicenter study to investigate in clinical practice Netherlands gain insight into prac...

BACKGROUND Dietary treatment for obese adolescents should aim to ensure adequate growth and development, by reducing excessive fat mass accumulation, avoiding loss of lean body mass, improving well-being and self-esteem and preventing cyclical weight regain. The aim of this article is to describe the dietary intervention design and the methods used to evaluate nutritional knowledge and behavior...