Malnutrition
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Children with cancer in resource limited countries are often malnourished at diagnosis. Acute malnutrition is associated with more infectious complications and an increased risk of morbidity and mortality in major surgery. METHODS: All ... Read more...

Oral rotavirus vaccines: how well will they work where they are needed most?

30 Oct 2009 Rotavirus vaccines hold promise to decrease the burden of severe diarrhea in the poorest countries, where 85% of deaths due to rotavirus occur. However, the potency of live oral vaccines is lower in these challenging settings than in middle- and ... Read more...

A review of nutrition in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

29 Sep 2009 Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a recessive X linked genetic disorder characterised by progressive muscle weakness and reduced muscle tone. Affecting only boys, it limits life expectancy to approximately 20 years. A literature review was ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Malnutrition'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter. 13 Dec 2009
• Oral rotavirus vaccines: how well will they work where they are needed most? 30 Oct 2009
• Afghanistan's hidden health issue. 29 Oct 2009
• The undernutrition epidemic: an urgent health priority. 29 Oct 2009
• [Protein rich ready-to-use food to undernourished children] 20 Oct 2009
• Newsmaker interview: M. S. Swaminathan. A guru of the green revolution reflects on Borlaug's legacy. Interview by Pallava Bagla. 14 Oct 2009
• A new global monitoring system for food insecurity? 8 Oct 2009
• A review of nutrition in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 29 Sep 2009
• HIV/AIDS, undernutrition, and food insecurity. 29 Sep 2009
• Against the tide of change: diet and health in the Pacific islands. 29 Sep 2009
• [Nutritional therapy in elderly care--a forgotten perspective. A questionnaire study shows clear shortages in the care of the elderly] 30 Aug 2009
• Associations between height, body mass, and frequency of decayed, extracted, and filled deciduous teeth among two cohorts of Taiwanese first graders. 30 Aug 2009
• Undernutrition and anorexia in the older person. 30 Aug 2009
• Growth assessment of paediatric patients with CF comparing different auxologic indicators: A multicentre Italian study. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of early malnutrition on mental system, metabolic syndrome, immunity and the gastrointestinal tract. 30 Aug 2009
• Influence of maternal stature, pregnancy age, and infant birth weight on growth during childhood in Yucatan, Mexico: a test of the intergenerational effects hypothesis. 30 Aug 2009
• Advances in understanding and assessing malnutrition. 30 Aug 2009
• Effect on immune indices of preoperative intravenous glutamine dipeptide supplementation in malnourished abdominal surgery patients in the preoperative and postoperative periods. 30 Aug 2009
• Evaluation of hematologic and biochemical values for convalescing seals from the coast of Maine. 30 Aug 2009
• A.S.P.E.N. clinical guidelines: nutrition support therapy during adult anticancer treatment and in hematopoietic cell transplantation. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Malnutrition'

Definition: An imbalanced nutritional status resulted from insufficient intake of nutrients to meet normal physiological requirement.

Descriptor UI: D044342

Alternative terms: Malnutrition; Undernutrition; Nutritional Deficiency; Nutritional Deficiencies;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C18.654.521;

History Note: 2004; use NUTRITION DISORDERS 1975-2003