this study was carried out to compare the effect between nutrition education intervention and non-nutrition education intervention on awareness regarding iron deficiency among schooling adolescents in tanah merah, one of rural district in kelantan, malaysia.this study which was started in year 2010 involved 280 respondents (223 girls, 57 boys, age: 16 yr) from schools in tanah merah. the select...

Background Sudden cardiac death is an important problem, because the patients have no opportunity to receive medical service. Recently some electrocardiogram (ECG) parameters are used for predicting arrhythmias, including P wave duration for predicting atrial arrhythmias and corrected QT and T wave peak to end interval (Tp-e), for predicting ventricular arrhythmi...

Two hundred and seventy school children between 13 to 20 years were investigated for iron deficiency. Overall iron deficiency (assessed by serum ferritin assay) was 39% in adolescents; 30% boys and 54% girls were iron depleted, anemia was found in 17% boys (Hb 13g/dl) and in 18% girls (Hb 12g/dl). Iron deficiency was more frequent than anemia in adolescent girls than boys. Iron deficient childr...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency of anemia and iron, zinc, copper and magnesium deficiencies among Mexican adolescents in the probabilistic survey ENSANUT 2006. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample included 2447 adolescents aged 12 to 19 y. Capillary hemoglobin and venous blood samples were collected to measure the concentrations of ferritin, sTFR, CRP, zinc, iron, copper and magnesium. Logist...

CONTEXT Iron deficiency anemia in infants can cause developmental problems. However, the relationship between iron status and cognitive achievement in older children is less clear. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between iron deficiency and cognitive test scores among a nationally representative sample of school-aged children and adolescents. DESIGN The National Health and Nutriti...

Leukaemia Research Fund the condition is unlikely to be appreciably more common than our figures suggest. Statistical analysis is inappropriate for the small number of cases reported here, but, unless the calculation of the population of elderly shoe repairers at risk in our area is a large underestimate, our findings suggest an association between the occupation and the disease. Several other ...

OBJECTIVES To associate the severity of nutritional anaemia with serum levels of ferritin, vitamin B12 and folate; and to determine demographic, socio-economic and nutritional correlates for nutritional anemia in adolescents. METHODS Cross-sectional hospital-based study among 200 adolescents (10-18 y) with anemia. Dietary intake (24-h recall), and serum levels of folate, vitamin B12 and ferri...