Background: Malnutrition, as a serious health problem in children, has an increasing prevalence in the developing countries. This study aimed to evaluate the anthropometric indices of primary school children in Iranshahr, a city in central region of Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 1000 6-14 year-old primary school children ...

In Mozambique 43% of children aged between 0 and 5 years old suffer from chronic malnutrition. Problems related to nutritional status are more prevalent in rural areas the country, especially north, with greater emphasis on provinces Nampula Cabo Delgado. various prevention resolution measures, communication tools, their strategies actions can contribute information, awareness populations. The ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition, especially under nutrition puts children at increased risk of morbidity and mortality and remains a serious barrier in child growth, development and survival. This is a major public health problem among under- 5 children in Nepal particularly in rural areas. OBJECTIVE To assess the burden and contributing factors for malnutrition in hill community of Ilam district in ...

In the past, it was common practice to relate low birthweight to prematurity. However, a number of environmental, maternal, placental, and fetal factors have been recognized as causing intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) in babies who are small-for-gestational-age (SGA). In the more affluent societies, one-third of the low birthweight babies are SGA. Yet in communities where protein-energy m...

In surgery, indications for artificial nutrition comprise prevention and treatment of catabolism and malnutrition. Thus in general, food intake should not be interrupted postoperatively and the re-establishing of oral (e.g. after anastomosis of the colon and rectum, kidney transplantation) or enteral food intake (e.g. after an anastomosis in the upper gastrointestinal tract, liver transplantati...

Child malnutrition is an important cause of under-5 mortality and morbidity around the globe. Despite the partial success of (inter)national efforts to reduce child mortality, under-5 mortality rates continue to be high. The multidimensional approaches of the Sustainable Development Goals may suggest new directions for rethinking strategies for reducing child mortality and malnutrition. We prop...

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BACKGROUND Hypernatremic dehydration in neonates is a potentially devastating condition. Recent reports have identified breast-feeding malnutrition as a key factor in its pathophysiology. METHODS Using a theoretical framework for breast-feeding kinetics, a retrospective chart review of all neonates less than 28 days of age who were seen at either British Columbia's Children's Hospital or the ...

More than 50% of deaths in children aged 0 to 4 years is associated with malnutrition, and high priority is therefore given to its prevention and treatment. Regrettably, hospital treatment of severely malnourished children is often poor and outmoded and consequently fatality rates are high. Data from 67 studies worldwide show that the median fatality rate has not changed for the past 5 decades,...