Background: Long term care (LTC) menus need to contain sufficient nutrients for health and pureed menus may have lower nutritional quality than regular texture menus due to processes (e.g., recipe alterations) required to modify textures. The aims of this study were to: determine adequacy of planned menus when compared to the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI); compare the energy, macronutrients, m...

OBJECTIVES To investigate how sociodemographic and clinical factors are associated with psychosocial functioning and disability at admission to a musculoskeletal pain rehabilitation program and at 1-year follow-up. DESIGN A cohort pre-post study. SETTING A University hospital specialized pain rehabilitation unit. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred nine participants with musculoskeletal pain (neck ...

(STI) conducted a study of the causes of elevated ozone levels on weekends in the South Coast (Los Angeles) Air Basin (SoCAB). This work was conducted over a period of 30 months beginning in December 1999. In the initial phase of the study, DRI examined the spatial, temporal, and statistical distributions of ozone, carbon monoxide, total non-methane hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides for routine...

Background. The question of the possible effect inhibitors renin-angiotensin system (iRAS) on hypertensive subjects who fell ill with COVID-19 has been discussed in literature. SARS-CoV-2 is well-known to use an angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors facilitating virus entry into host cells. There are three mechanisms (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) clinical practice: worsenin...

The symposium "Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for Food Labeling" explored the scientific debate about the most appropriate DRI values to use in establishing Daily Values on food labels. An important goal of nutrition and ingredient information is to help consumers make healthful dietary choices. This summary provides highlights from recent quantitative and qualitative research on consumers' u...

BACKGROUND Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) for energy aim to balance energy expenditure at a level of physical activity consistent with health and support adequate growth in children. DRIs were derived from total energy expenditure (TEE) measured by using the doubly labeled water (DLW) method; however, the database was limited in the 3-5-y-old range. OBJECTIVE We reexamined the DRI for energy...

In Ve ron ica Ro dri guez-Blanco’s thought ful and im por tant ar ti cle, “Rea sons in Ac tion v Trig ger ing Rea sons: A Re ply to Enoch on Rea son-Giv ing and Le gal Normativity,” she ex plores with great care the na ture of rea son-giv ing, in con nec tion with chal leng ing Da vid Enoch’s in flu en tial re cent work on rea son-giv ing and the law. While Ro dri guez-Blanco’s ar ti cle makes ...

INTRODUCTION Patients who sustain open lower limb fractures have reported infection risks as high as 27%. The type of dressing applied after initial debridement could potentially affect this risk. In this trial, standard dressings will be compared with a new emerging treatment, negative pressure wound therapy, for patients with open lower limb fractures. METHODS AND ANALYSIS All adult patient...

BACKGROUND Since obesity in urban women is prevalent in Kenya the study aimed to determine predictors of overweight and obesity in urban Kenyan women. METHODS A cross-sectional study was undertaken in Nairobi Province. The province was purposively selected because it has the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in Kenya.A total of 365 women aged 25-54 years old were randomly selected ...

Recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviews of the process for deriving Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) suggest that determining the need for a new nutrient review should be evaluated against criteria set a priori. After selecting the criterion of significant new and relevant research, a working group of US and Canadian government scientists used results from a systematic review and 2 conferenc...