The effects of the January 1994 devaluation of the African Financial Community (CFA) franc on the nutritional situation of the populations concerned has been little documented. We report in this article on two nutritional cross-sectional surveys that were conducted before and after this devaluation (1993 and 1996) in two districts of Brazzaville, Congo. The surveys involved a representative sam...

plant analysis is successfully used in monitoring nutritional status, recommending fertilizer rates and types, and maximizing fertilizer efficiency in sugar beet. diagnosis and recommendation integrated system (dris) is a comprehensive approach which does not have limitations of the critical value approach (cva) and sufficiency range approach (sra). over- dose application of fertilizer increase...

PURPOSE This study was designed to test structural equation modeling of the quality of life of pre-dialysis patients, in order to provide guidelines for the development of interventions and strategies to improve the quality of life of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). METHODS Participants were patients who visited the nephrology outpatient department of a tertiary hospital located i...

A cross-sectional sample of 253 ambulatory elderly Egyptians (99 males and 154 females) of minimal age, 60 y, living in the metropolitan Cairo area was investigated. Nutritional status assessment was based on body weight, mid-upper arm circumference and skinfold thickness. Additionally, three nutritional indices, namely body mass index, index of adiposity and index of muscularity, were computed...

The proximate composition and fatty acid (FA) profiles of five Brazilian freshwater fish species, namely Brycon cephalus (BC), Cichla ocellaris (CO), Prochilodus lineatus (PL), Leporinus friderici (LF) and Pseudoplatystoma corruscans (PCO), were investigated. CO and LF exhibited the highest (p < 0.05) moisture content, as well as one of the lowest (p < 0.05) lipid values, whereas BC presented t...

nutritional incides have important role in economical efficiency of silkworm rearing. in order to estimate nutritional indices six silkworm hybrids including 103×104, 31×32, 107×110, 104×103, 32×31 and 110×107 which were commercially used in iran for cocoon production were tested. these hybrids were reared in spring 2003, spring 2004 and autumn 2004. the studied parameters were amount of ingest...

The usefulness of nutritional indices and classifications in predicting the death of children under 5 years old was evaluated by comparing measurements of 34 children with diarrhoea who died in a Dhaka hospital with those of 318 patients who were discharged in a satisfactory condition. In a logistic regression analysis mid-upper arm circumference was found to be as effective as other nutritiona...