We have been drawn to the use of stable isotopes rather than radioisotope tracers (Halliday & Rennie, 1982) as probes of human metabolism for a number of reasons. The most important of these are the lack of radioactive hazard, the higher sensitivity in some techniques such as measurement of tissue protein synthesis, and the ease of measurement of fractional enrichment in one instrument leading ...

‘The study of nutrition and the study of enzymes represent two sides of the same coin’ (Green, 1946). This statement is specially applicable in cases of nutritional oedema and kwashiorkor, both being states of protein malnutrition. Since enzymes are protein in nature it is to be expected that protein malnutrition will lead to a diminution in the quantity of enzymes. Acute starvation in rats pro...

Letters Composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) classification: is it more useful? Editor – The paper published by Nandy et al. in the Bulletin on the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) is welcome in view of the paucity of recent attempts to classify undernouri i ished children satisfactorily. 1 However, the usefulness of the CIAF classification has to be considered visià...

SUMMARY In the present study nutritional status of 600 children of 553 women (who at least had one 0-36 months old child) attending the 5 health centers in Zabol city during September to October 1988 were assesse d acording to different nutritional classifications. On the basis of Gomez (Expected Weight for age= EW/ age) and Waterlow (Heigh t for age=H/age and Expecte d Weight  for Height =EW...

Objetivo: identificar as escalas preditoras de risco para desenvolvimento LPP utilizadas na assistência enfermagem, avaliando sua aplicabilidade e comparando vantagens limitações da utilização. Método: revisão integrativa literatura através buscas nas bases dados LILACS, MEDLINE BDENF utilizando os descritores Lesão por Pressão”, “Assistência enfermagem”, “Escalas” “Feridas”. Foram incluídos no...

  SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to assess the role of primary health services in improving general health of children in chat rood villages, Kerman, Iran, by comparing growth and nutritional status of 0-5 year children in 1980 and 1984. Nutritional status was assessed, using anthropometric methods; in 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1984. The results were as follows; 1)between 1980 and 1982, t...

Correspondence: Denis Anthony Professor of Nursing Mary Seacole Research Centre De Montfort University 266 London Road Leicester LE2 1RQ UK Telephone: þ44 116 201 3909 E-mail: [email protected] ANTHONY D, PARBOTEEAH S, SALEH M & PAPANIKOLAU P (2008) Journal of Clinical Nursing 17, 646–653 Norton, Waterlow and Braden scores: a review of the literature and a comparison between the scores and ...