M ore than 10 million children under the age of fi ve die each year, of whom 1.5 million are severely malnourished [1]. Pelletier and colleagues showed that 53% –60% of global child deaths are attributed to malnutrition (determined by weight-for-height z-scores of less than minus 1) [2], representing 5.7–6.4 million malnutrition-related deaths each year associated with pneumonia, diarrhoea, mea...

I . The plasma and blood volumes of twenty-eight Iraqi children were measured. Twentyfour of them were malnourished in varying degrees and four were normal children who acted as controls. None of the children was anaemic. 2. Therc was an increase in the plasma and blood volumes per unit body-weight correlating with the degree of malnourishment (P < 0.001). 3. There was little variation in the v...

Secretory IgA outputs in urine have been measured in 24 malnourished Gambian children who had been admitted to hospital with chronic diarrhoea and in 43 children from a rural Gambian village. Village children of poor nutritional state (less than or equal to 74% weight for age compared with the National Center for Health Statistics reference curve) had secretory IgA outputs that were only one th...

Background and Aim: The study objective was to assess chaotic global metrics in malnourished children following power spectral manipulations. Methods: We evaluated the complexity of heart rate (HR) variability (HRV) subjects via six spectra (Welch, multi-taper method (MTM), Burg, covariance, Yule-Walker, periodogram) then, when adjusted by MTM parameters, for further refinement. Seventy were sp...

BACKGROUND Severe malnutrition is a common cause of morbidity and mortality among children less than five years of age. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed two manuals for the in-patient treatment of severe malnutrition. However, these manuals are not widely distributed with the result that most health practitioners caring for severely malnourished children unknowingly use practic...

BACKGROUND Hookworms infect millions of people worldwide and can cause severe clinical symptoms in their hosts. Prospective cohort studies in Brazil show high rates of hookworm reinfection in malnourished children compared to well-nourished children, despite previous treatment. Additionally, soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections can worsen the nutritional status of affected populations. Th...