Early infant feeding practices can be considered as a target for later obesity prevention. Investigating whether some adipokines are involved is particularly interesting. The aim of this study was to investigate leptin, adiponectin and vaspin concentrations under different feeding practices in early infancy and their relation with growth and adiposity indices. Sixty healthy term infants, 33 mal...

Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, is a common occurrence after stroke, occurring in ≥65% of stroke patients. About half of the patients with dysphagia improve within 2 weeks and 15% continue to have persistent dysphagia after 1 month. Prior studies evaluating early percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding compared with nasogastric feeding and delayed PEG< if needed, have shown that ...

BACKGROUND Peptic ulcer is the most common cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) and nutritional support is a helpful strategy in malnutrition prevention during treatment. As early oral feeding in patients with GIB may shorten hospital stay and decrease costs and risk of infection, the present study was carried out to investigate the effects of early oral feeding on relapse and symptom...