BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a clinical state resulting in prolonged hospital stay, increase in severity of infections and poor wound healing. AIMS Our aim was to investigate the prevalence and etiologic factors of malnutrition in medical inpatients. STUDY DESIGN A total of 290 consecutively admitted internal medicine patients from February to May 2012 were included. On admission, demographic...

The important developments in industrial fermentation lead to the utilization of microbial enzymes in different applications. Selected organisms Aspergillus fumigatus, A. terreus, Penicillium chrysogenum, P. funiculosum and Fusarium moniliforme. Various environmental parameters like pH, temperature and nutritional parameters such as carbon and nitrogen sources were investigated to optimize the ...

INTRODUCTION Patients with cerebral palsy (CP), besides the basic neurological damage, are also often undernourished. Adequate nutrition for children is very important during the period of intensive growth and development, which is of particular importance in patients with CP. GOAL To evaluate the nutritional status of patients with CP who are treated at the Pediatric Clinic, Clinical Centre ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a common problem in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing hemodialysis that increases morbidity and mortality rate in them. Subjective global assessment (SGA) is a tool used by health care providers to assess nutritional status in these patients. In addition, biochemical parameters are used to assess the nutritional status in all people. OBJECTIVES...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a popular treatment for adolescent morbid obesity. Research on LSG outcomes among adolescents assessed a narrow range of anthropometric, nutritional, or cardiometabolic parameters, leading to an incomplete picture of these changes. We examined a wide variety of anthropometric, nutritional, and cardiometabolic parameters among adolescents befor...

Nutrition is essential for maintenance of physiologic homeostasis and growth. Hypermetabolic states lead to a depletion of body stores, with decreased immunocompetence and increased morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this paper is to provide an update regarding the provision of appropriate nutrition for the pediatric surgical patient, emphasizing the preoperative and postoperative periods....

BACKGROUND Nutrition is one of the important components of health, functional independence and quality of life in elderly population. In this age group, malnutrition is common and the risk of malnutrition increases with the advancing age. Nutritional status acts as a modifying factor in the development of many oral diseases. AIM To assess the relationship of salivary factors, dental caries an...

Aim: Malnutrition is common in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and hypoalbuminemia is a predictor of poor outcomes in end-stage renal disease patients. Amino acid peritoneal dialysate (AAPD) is used to improve nutritional status in malnourished PD patients. In this study, we investigated effects of AAPD on nutritional parameters in hypoalbuminemic PD patients. Methods: Sixteen (10 male and 6 ...

INTRODUCTION Malnutrition is common in maintenance hemodialysis (HD) and is associated with increased mortality and morbidity in affected patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of malnutrition and correlate the methods of nutritional assessment. METHODS We evaluated the nutritional status of 40 prevalent HD patients by subjective global assessment (SGA) score, anthrop...

Diabetes-specific formulas are an effective alternative for providing nutrients and maintaining glycemic control. This study assesses the effect of treatment with an oral enteral nutrition with a hypercaloric diabetes-specific formula (HDSF) for one year, on health-care resources use, health-care costs, glucose control and nutritional status, in 93 type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) malnourished p...