BACKGROUND & AIMS To analyse nutritional risk in hospitalized children and its relationship with clinical outcomes to provide evidence for improved nutritional management. METHODS The investigation involved 1325 consecutively enrolled hospitalized children from Nanjing Children's Hospital. The nutritional risks in the hospitalized children were evaluated using the STRONGkids tool. During hosp...

BACKGROUND To assess nutritional status, the prevalence of nutritional risk, and nutritional support in hospitalized patients in Guangzhou, to determine gender or age associated differences in the prevalence of nutritional risk. METHODS A total of 2550 patients admitted during April to December 2008 from six departments (Gastroenterology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Nephrology, General Surgery an...

OBJECTIVE. To assess the use of dietary supplements used in food consumption, the clinical nutritional status and biochemistry of patients colonized and not colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa participants of a program of home nutritional therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Observational analytic study, carried out with 47 patients, 2-19 years. The nutritional failure was referred to as with nutri...

Nutrition touches on every aspect of healthcare and medical practice. It may sometimes appear peripheral or coincidental, but often it is fundamental to a successful outcome. The underlying principles of nutrition and aspects of nutritional care should be integral to the training of every doctor. This article will consider selected areas of practice where common problems in nutrition are import...

When we began a study of the nutritional requirements of highly inbred strains of mice, the immediate problem facing us was the selection of a suitable stock ration. Many such feeds are commercially available, but advertising claims would lead one to regard most of them as equally superb. To gain some information on this matter we studied the growth rates of two strains of mice on various stock...