Study Context The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) Eating Disorders Unit (EDU), one of few public adult inpatient units for eating disorders in Australia, comprises five beds in a general psychiatric ward. Treatment is provided by a multi-disciplinary team. The goals of inpatient treatment include medical stabilisation, nutritional rehabilitation with restoration of weight (Body Mass ...

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is integral to the optimal medical care of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Physical exercise, medical management of elevated blood pressure and lipids, nutritional counseling, and smoking cessation are core components of CR in this country. Although no single study has demonstrated definitively that exercise improves clinical outcomes in CHD patients, a r...

In a recent issue of the Journal, Poulsen et al. (1) studied the effects of individualized nursing care in elderly hospitalized patients. The setting was a geriatric rehabilitation clinic and the authors used a quasi-experimental design using one intervention unit and one control unit. The intervention consisted of intensified focus by nurses on nutrition. As it is stated in the article, ‘‘the ...

· To learn about the magnitude of the burden of the disease and the systemic involvement of chronic respiratory failure; · To learn about the interactions and complexity of mechanisms leading to undernutrition with compromise of metabolic active tissues, i.e. skeletal muscles; · To learn about the integration of nutritional support in pulmonary rehabilitation including exercise training for pat...

Neurological and neurosurgical diseases lead to complications producing malnutrition increasing pathology and mortality. In order to avoid complications because of malnutrition or overcome deficiencies in nutrients supplements are often used for these subjects. The physiopathological mechanisms of malnutrition, methods of nutritional assessment and the supplemental support are reviewed in this ...

BACKGROUND The impairment of immune functions associated with malnutrition may be one reason for the high mortality in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and thymus atrophy has been proposed as a marker of this immunodeficiency. The aim of this study was to identify nutritional and clinical correlates of thymus size in children with SAM, and predictors of change in thymus size with ...

Carrie Ferguson, Daniel T. Cannon, Lindsey A. Wylde, Alan P. Benson, and X Harry B. Rossiter School of Biomedical Sciences & Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; School of Exercise & Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California; and Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Division ...

ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.11.50 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2011) 1(5), 467–476 Summary Anorexia nervosa is an enigmatic syndrome and has the highest mortality rate among psychiatric disorders. Nutritional rehabilitation remains both the therapeutic cornerstone and the key challenge, but the evidence for effective therapeutic approaches is still very limited. Cannabinoids have ...

[Purpose] Our purpose was to create awareness among of social rehabilitation at the university and in local governments, to identify gaps in social rehabilitation, and to increase the effectiveness of social rehabilitation. [Subjects and Methods] This study included stroke patients undergoing physical rehabilitation from the stroke outpatient clinic (43 patients) and the Istanbul Metropolitan M...

INTRODUCTION Cardiac rehabilitation is a way of improving the quality life of heart failure patients. AIM Determining the effect of physical activity on the quality of life of patients with heart failure. METHODS This study was conducted on 34 patients affected by heart failure with an ejection fraction of less than 40%. The patients followed both psychological and nutritional consultations...