Dual Malnutrition Burden in Indian Households Doubled Between 2005 and 2021
A study of national survey data shows that the prevalence of undernourished child and overweight mother pairs doubled in India ...
Tag: Malnutrition
Case Report Links Rapid Weight Loss to Rare Chest Air Leak
A case report in Eating and Weight Disorders links rapid weight loss and malnutrition to spontaneous pneumomediastinum in a 23-year-old ...
Kenyan Pastoral Women Turn to Mushroom Farming to Counter Climate Drought Trauma
A study in Kenya shows climate-smart mushroom and vegetable cultivation helped pastoral women mitigate collective trauma and child malnutrition following ...
Severe Malnutrition Exacerbates Lipid Abnormalities in Ugandan Children Living with HIV
A study of 156 Ugandan children living with HIV found that severe malnutrition and lack of antiretroviral therapy were associated ...
Commentary flags statistical and design limits of Sjögren nutrition study
A commentary in Advances in Rheumatology questions the cutoff direction, multicollinearity, and causal limits of a cross-sectional study linking nutritional ...
Many Colorectal Cancer Patients Are Malnourished Before Surgery, Iranian Study Finds
A cross-sectional study of 105 Iranian colorectal cancer patients found that 54.3% had moderate-to-severe malnutrition and 40% faced critical nutritional ...
Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis in Ethiopian Children: Severe Disease, High Mortality
A retrospective cohort at an Ethiopian tertiary hospital found severe rheumatic mitral stenosis in most of 98 children, with 16 ...
Prediction Model Flags Stubborn Low Albumin in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
A retrospective study of 368 peritoneal dialysis patients identified diabetes, elevated C-reactive protein, and high peritoneal transport as key risk ...
Nutrition often fails to fully recover after drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment
A retrospective Indonesian cohort study found that many drug-resistant tuberculosis patients remained malnourished after completing treatment, despite significant average improvements ...
New Screening Framework Aims to Untangle Overlapping Health Risks in Older Adults
Researchers have proposed a conceptual framework that organizes haematologic, nutritional, functional, cognitive, and cardiometabolic screening for community-dwelling older adults into ...
Individualized Perioperative Nursing Helped an Adolescent Heal After Recurrent Fistula Repair
A Chinese case report describes multidisciplinary individualized perioperative nursing that supported complete fistula healing, discharge on postoperative day 14 and ...
Poor Preoperative Nutrition Linked to Higher Complications and Lower Survival After Hip Replacement
A retrospective cohort study of 426 total hip arthroplasty patients found that low preoperative PNI, hypoalbuminemia, and NRS-2002 nutritional risk ...
Hidden Hunger in Aging Bodies: Malnutrition and Sarcopenia Strike Even Those With Excess Weight
A cross-sectional study of 303 older Italian adults with cardiometabolic diseases found malnutrition in 39.9%, sarcopenia in 30.9%, and frequent ...
Indian symposium charts a path from hospital nutrition care to community health
A meeting report in BMC Proceedings details a Bengaluru symposium that brought together clinical and public health experts to address ...
Behavior Change Wheel Scoping Review Finds Child Nutrition Interventions Skew Toward High-Income Settings
A scoping review of 22 studies finds the behavior change wheel is widely used in child nutrition interventions but almost ...
Lean Young-Onset Diabetes in Bangladesh May Hide a Distinct Underweight Phenotype
A comment letter argues that only 9 of 53 lean diabetes participants in a Bangladeshi study had a BMI below ...
Retrospective HCC surgery study compares indices for GLIM-defined malnutrition
In a retrospective study of 210 surgically treated hepatocellular carcinoma patients, PNI had the strongest diagnostic performance for GLIM-defined malnutrition, ...
Nutritional supplementation linked to immune improvements in malnourished tuberculosis patients
A retrospective study of 118 adults hospitalized with tuberculosis and malnutrition associated oral nutritional supplementation with improved nutritional and immune ...
Hospitalized Cancer Patients Fall Far Short of Prescribed Nutrition, Study Finds
A longitudinal study of 77 hospitalized patients with gastrointestinal, lung, or head and neck cancer found that energy and protein ...
Ultrasound and bedside screening tool reveal hidden malnutrition in children on dialysis
A cross-sectional study of 68 children on hemodialysis found that quadriceps muscle ultrasound and subjective global nutritional assessment agree well ...
