Malnutrition in children and women is a major publichealth problem in most of the developing countries and Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) is more common among underfive year children. Childhood malnutrition is major underlying cause (>50%) of the under 5 year children deaths. Every year 7.6 million children die such preventable malnutrition and its related causes. Similarly, next prevalent c...

it is very important for a child with cancer to have a normal process of growth. then management of child's nutritional status and his/her security protection is necessary. the objectives of this article were to assess nutritional status, to find reasons for malnutrition, to introduce a suitable nutritional regimen, to evaluate psychological status, to educate the child and his/her family ...

Background: Malnutrition is responsible for one third of the mortality rate among children less than 5 years old. Worldwide, 54% of the child deaths are due to malnutrition and the caseload in Pakistan is equal to 46%. In the current study, we attempted to identify the possible risk factors related to malnutrition among6-59-month children in Pakpattan, Punjab province. Methods: A total of 500 s...

The effect of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) in the children on serum levels of total thyroxine (TT4), total triodothyronine (TT3) and thyrotropin (TSH) were evaluated. There were 107 children aged 2 to 60 months in the malnutrition group and 54 healthy age and sex matched controls. Serum TT4 and TT3 were all reduced in the malnutrition group. This decrease in TT3 was more significant (p < 0...

RATIONALE Hospital malnutrition is a global health problem affecting 30-50% of hospitalized patients. There are no estimates of the size of this problem in Ecuadorian hospitals. Hospital malnutrition might influence the quality of medical assistance provided to hospitalized populations. OBJECTIVES To estimate the current frequency of malnutrition among patients admitted to Ecuadorian public h...

introduction: ulcerative colitis (uc) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the colon of unknown cause that is associated with important nutrition deficiencies such as protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies. because no study has been carried out to date in iran, the aim of this pilot study was the assessment of dietary intake of these patients. methods: in this pilot stud...

background: increased incidence and severity of acute lower respiratory tract infection (alri) are variably associated with malnutrition. objectives: we aimed to examine the prevalence of malnutrition in under-five year old hospitalized children with alri. patients and methods: children aged from 6 to 60 months, mostly from a low socioeconomic population, admitted with alri, were enrolled prosp...

background: assessing the growth of infants is a main parameter in their health assessment. thus, we have studied the growth condition of children from born to 18 months in this research in bandar abbas, iran, 2015. methods: in this descriptive study, we have selected 104 case records from the dataset of health center number 8 of bandarabbas by means of simple randomized sampling. all data abou...