Nutrition Assessment
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Markers for the validation of reported dietary intake in adults with cystic fibrosis.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To identify different markers in order to validate the assessment of dietary intake in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Tertiary care. SUBJECTS: We assessed 37 adults with CF whose nutritional and ... Read more...

Nutrition in cystic fibrosis.

14 Sep 2009 Cystic fibrosis (CF) is mostly recognized for its pulmonary morbidity, but the earliest manifestations of the disease are related to its gastrointestinal and nutritional derangements. Destruction of acinar pancreatic tissue, pancreatic ductular ... Read more...

Development of clinical application for a nutritional prescription support system for total parenteral/enteral nutrition.

30 Aug 2009 One of the important roles of pharmacists as members of a nutrition support team is nutritional prescription support. We developed a nutritional prescription support system (NPSS) that facilitates prescription support and analysis and evaluated its ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nutrition Assessment'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Markers for the validation of reported dietary intake in adults with cystic fibrosis. 29 Sep 2009
• Validating dietary intake with biochemical markers. 29 Sep 2009
• Cultural complexities in dietary assessment and treatment. 29 Sep 2009
• Nutrition in cystic fibrosis. 14 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
• Development of clinical application for a nutritional prescription support system for total parenteral/enteral nutrition. 30 Aug 2009
• Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care. Current world literature. 30 Aug 2009
• Metabolomics for assessment of nutritional status. 30 Aug 2009
• Advances in understanding and assessing malnutrition. 30 Aug 2009
• Iodine status assessment in Campania (Italy) as determined by urinary iodine excretion. 30 Aug 2009
• A review of the relationship between dysphagia and malnutrition following stroke. 30 Aug 2009
• Recruitment to a randomized web-based nutritional intervention trial: characteristics of participants compared to non-participants. 24 Aug 2009
• [Nutrition and oncogeriatry] 16 Aug 2009
• Fast determination of fatty acids in whole blood collected from fingertips: application to the assessment of fatty acid patterns (and various indexes) in population studies. 15 Aug 2009
• Plasma vitamin B(6) and risk of myocardial infarction in women. 8 Aug 2009
• Association between the French nutritional guideline-based score and 6-year anthropometric changes in a French middle-aged adult cohort. 3 Aug 2009
• Weighing risk: the expert committee's recommendations in practice. 30 Jul 2009
• Nutrition support therapy in acute kidney injury: distinguishing dogma from good practice. 30 Jul 2009
• Vitamin D status, bone mineral density, and the development of radiographic osteoarthritis of the knee: The Rotterdam Study. 30 Jul 2009
• Satiety and the anorexia of ageing. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Nutrition Assessment'

Definition: Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the NUTRITIONAL STATUS of the individual. NUTRITION SURVEYS may be used in making the assessment.

Descriptor UI: D015596

Alternative terms: Nutrition Assessment; Assessments, Nutrition; Nutrition Assessments; Nutritional Assessment; Assessment, Nutritional; Assessments, Nutritional; Nutritional Assessments; Assessment, Nutrition; Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI); Index, Prognostic Nutritional (PNI); Indices, Prognostic Nutritional (PNI); Nutritional Index, Prognostic (PNI); Nutritional Indices, Prognostic (PNI); Prognostic Nutritional Indices (PNI); Prognostic Nutritional Index; Index, Prognostic Nutritional; Indices, Prognostic Nutritional; Nutritional Index, Prognostic; Nutritional Indices, Prognostic; Prognostic Nutritional Indices; Nutrition Indexes; Indexes, Nutrition; Nutritional Index; Index, Nutritional; Indices, Nutritional; Nutritional Indices; Nutrition Indices; Nutrition Index; Index, Nutrition; Indices, Nutrition;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.585; N05.715.360.300.560; N06.850.505.557; N06.850.520.308.585;

History Note: 1990; for NUTRITION INDEXES use NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY 1992-2006

Technical Notes: do not confuse with NUTRITION SURVEYS: survey refers to a population in a given geographic area, assessment refers to an individual; DF: NUTRITION ASSESS