In the time that it takes you to read this page, approximately 60 children under five will die. Every hour, about 1140 young children die; most of them from malnutrition and preventable diseases. Annually, it is about 10 million lives. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rate of under five mortality is 172 per 1000 live births. In industrialized countries, the rate is 6 per 1000. While many in the West ...

BackgroundMalnourishment is associated with poor outcomes after lung transplantation. Validated screening tools for patients awaiting transplants are needed. We assessed the association of Nutritional Risk Index (NRI) transplantation.MethodsWe categorized adult (aged more than 18 years) undergoing incident transplantation in Scientific Registry Transplant Recipients between 2005 and 2018 (n = 1...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as Kala-Azar, is a disseminated protozoal infection caused principally by Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum (known as Leishmania chagasi in South America). The therapeutic options for VL are diverse and depend on different factors, such as the geographical area of the infection, development of resistance to habitual treatments, HIV co-infection,...

Malnutrition is a growing problem in the UK with as many as 14% of people aged over 65 at risk. It is of particular concern in care homes where more than one third of residents are undernourished. Weight loss is not the only symptom of malnourishment and nurses should examine any changes to a person's health and well-being to identify causes. Regular monitoring of patients' risk of malnutrition...

Most organisms grow according to simple laws, which in principle can be derived from energy conservation and scaling arguments, critically dependent on the relation between the metabolic rate B of energy flow and the organism mass m. Although this relation is generally recognized to be of the form B(m) = m, the specific value of the exponent p is the object of an ongoing debate, with many mecha...

We investigate the demographic effects of forced labor under an extractive colonial regime: Cultivation System in nineteenth-century Java. Our panel analyses show that demands are strongly positively associated with mortality rates, likely resulting from malnourishment and unhygienic conditions on plantations spread infectious diseases. An instrumental variable approach, using international mar...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among children population of less developed countries is a major health problem. Inadequate food intake and infectious diseases are combined to increase further the prevalence. Malnourishment brings to muscle cells loss with development of cardiac complications, like arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy and sudden death. In developed countries, malnutrition has generally a differ...

Objective To identify the prevalence of malnutrition in elderly hip fracture and to investigate the relationship between hip fracture patients and malnutrition on functional recovery and mortality. Methods All hip fracture patients age >65 years admitted to a rehabilitation unit were recruited from July 2015 to June 2016. Nutritional status was assessed by Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Fo...