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Undernutrition & childhood morbidities among tribal preschool children
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Background & objectives: Undernutrition and various morbidities go hand in hand, particularly in children. Nutritional status is a sensitive indicator of community health and nutrition. The present study is an attempt to assess the nutritional status of pre-school children of Gond tribal community in Madhya Pradesh.
Methods: The study was a community-based, cross- sectional survey carried out in tribal pre-school children. Anthropometric measurements were taken. Various indices of ...
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Nutritional status and risk factors of chronic malnutrition in children under five years of age in Aydin, a western city of Turkey
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
; SUMMARY: Ergin F, Okyay P, Atasoylu G, Beser E. Nutritional status and risk factors of chronic malnutrition in children under five years of age in Aydin, a western city of Turkey. Turk J Pediatr 2007; 49: 283-289. We aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors of chronic malnutrition in
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Distributions of Mortality Risk Attributable to Low Nutritional Status in Niakhar, Senegal1
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; Abstract This study proposes a method for computing the distributions of mortality risk attributable to malnutrition among children of developing countries. Population distributions of nutritional status were adjusted with a normal curve and the relation between mortality and nutritional status was
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; Abstract Human health status in Russia has declined sharply over the last decade. The massive social changes that have taken place since the fall of the Soviet Union have resulted in increasing morbidity and mortality rates. However, relatively little information is available on the changes in
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Psychosocial Stimulation Improves the Development of Undernourished Children in Rural Bangladesh1
The Journal of Nutrition
; Abstract Undernutrition in early childhood is associated with poor mental development and affects 45% of children in Bangladesh. Although limited evidence shows that psychosocial stimulation can reduce the deficits, no such interventions have been reported from Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Integrated
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Socioeconomic gradients in body weight of German children reverse direction between the ages of 2 and 6 years
The Journal of Nutrition
; Socioeconomic Gradients in Body Weight of German Children Reverse Direction between the Ages of 2 and 6 Years1 ABSTRACT In Western societies, there is an inverse socioeconomic status (SES) gradient in overweight, but its onset is unknown. It was the aim of this study to assess the onset of the SES
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Dietary Diversity Is Associated with Child Nutritional Status: Evidence from 11 Demographic and Health Surveys1,2
The Journal of Nutrition
; ABSTRACT Simple indicators reflecting diet quality for young children are needed both for programs and in some research contexts. Measures of dietary diversity are relatively simple and were shown to be associated with nutrient adequacy and nutritional status. However, dietary diversity also tends
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Energy Requirements of Children With Cerebral Palsy
Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
; Abstract Energy requirements of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy appear to be disease-specific and different from the current recommendations for healthy children, varying depending upon functional capacity, degree of mobility, severity of disease, and level of altered metabolism.
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An Infant and Child Feeding Index Is Associated with the Nutritional Status of 6- to 23-Month-Old Children in Rural Burkina Faso1
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; ABSTRACT The measurement of child feeding practices is complex and the relation between the quality of feeding and children's nutritional status is difficult to establish. We examined this relation in rural Burkina Faso, West Africa, using an adapted version of the Infant and Child Feeding Index
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Indicators of poor nutritional status in older Americans. (Nutrition Screening Initiative, part 2)
American Family Physician
; ... 1990;38:1041-8. [21] Ramsdell J. The role of a home visit in comprehensive geriatric assessment. Am Acad Home Care Physician News 1989;1(3):1. [22] Clark NG, Blackburn GL. Enteral nutrition--part II. Am J IV Ther Clin Nutr 1983;10:9. [23] Andres R, Elahi ...
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