ALLMedicine™ Malnutrition Center

May 15th, 2022 - Food insecurity (FI) is one of the major causes of malnutrition and is associated with a range of negative health outcomes in low and middle-income countries. The burden of FI in southern Africa is unknown, although FI continues to be a major publ...

May 15th, 2022 - Poor infant young child feeding (IYCF) practices result in malnutrition, poor psychosocial development, poor school performance and less productivity in later life, thereby perpetuating a vicious cycle. The current study aims to characterize the I...

May 15th, 2022 - The Spanish population completed its nutritional transition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it overcame the problems of malnutrition. Among the initiatives that made this possible, the Food and Nutrition Education Programme (Edalnu) (1961-1986) stand...

May 15th, 2022 - While life expectancy is increasing due to scientific advancement, quality of life in aging depends, among other factors, on the nutritional status and socioeconomic status of older adults. To determine socioeconomic status and its association wit...

May 15th, 2022 - Identifying dietary and physical activity (PA) patterns in Russian youths and examining their dependence on gender, age, family characteristics and area of residence features. The research involved 783 school students 10-17 years of age and their ...

Mar 21st, 2022 - Malnutrition and dehydration are widespread in older people, and obesity is an increasing problem. In clinical practice, it is often unclear which strategies are suitable and effective in counteracting these key health threats. To provide evidence...

Nov 7th, 2021 - In hospitals through Europe and worldwide, the practices regarding hospital diets are very heterogeneous. Hospital diets are rarely prescribed by physicians, and sometimes the choices of diets are based on arbitrary reasons. Often prescriptions ar...

Sep 25th, 2021 - Nutrition support is a therapy that crosses all ages, diseases, and conditions as health care practitioners strive to meet the nutritional requirements of individuals who are unable to meet nutritional and/or hydration needs with oral intake alone...

Jul 8th, 2021 - Malnutrition, Frailty, and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis: 2021 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.|2021|Lai JC,Tandon P,Bernal W,Tapper EB,Ekong U,|metabolism,physiopathology,prevention & control,...

May 25th, 2021 - Individuals undergoing rehabilitation often experience nutritional problems such as malnutrition, but there are no clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) specifically tailored to the combination of rehabilitation and nutritional care for these patien...

May 13th, 2022 - Approximately 2 billion people worldwide are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), with 90% of individuals having latent infection (LTBI). The control of TB requires clearly delineated helper T cell (Th) 1 responses and, to a lesser exten...

May 13th, 2022 - Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become a global public health priority over the past few decades, affecting 10-12% of the adult population and has received increasing attention. Sarcopenia describes a generalizes degenerative skeletal muscle diso...

May 11th, 2022 - This is a pilot study to test how a growing-up formula (GUF) compares to a common nutritional supplement (NS), which is regularly used to help toddlers (ages 12-36 months) gain weight. This study will look at whether GUF helps to increase solid fo...

May 10th, 2022 - The purpose of this prospective trial is to study the impact of the utilization of structured nutrition delivery pathway on 300 adult abdominal trauma and surgery patients admitted to a Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) intensive care unit (IC...

May 6th, 2022 - The proposed work is based on the finding that one-third of the world is infected with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and only 10% of these individuals develop TB. The study aims to identify factors that drive progression to disease...

May 12th, 2022 - Eating disorders are among the most prevalent, disabling, and potentially fatal psychiatric illnesses, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated their burden, with a 15.3% increase in incidence in 2020 compared with previous years.1 This increase ...

Apr 20th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In severely malnourished Bangladeshi infants, restoring a strain of the bacterial species Bifidobacterium infantis promoted rapid weight gain and lowered markers of intestinal inflammation, researchers say. B. infantis ...

Mar 30th, 2022 - Researchers published the study covered in this summary on medRxiv.org as a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Adults whose rehabilitation weight gain as children following an episode of severe malnutrition exceeded certai...

Mar 28th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway A 6-week prehabilitation program improved the physical fitness, nutritional status, and emotional well-being of el...

Mar 7th, 2022 - An antibiotic stewardship program led to fewer Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) tests ordered for solid organ transplant recipients without impacting the negative test rate, a retrospective study found. Compared with a pre-intervention period, C...