(1) Patients were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases.
(2) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
(3) Malnutrition and dehydration are the immediate consequences of diarrheal diseases.
(4) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(5) The interaction between malnutrition and exposure to a mucosal damaging agent, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), was examined by monitoring the small-intestinal changes in weanling rats.
(6) The number of splenic anti-TNP direct plaque-forming cells (PFCs) was decreased by malnutrition when expressed on a per spleen basis.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) It is concluded that malnutrition is a strong predictor of ALRI-related death in the pre-school child.
(9) The conclusions were: the percentage of patients with malnutrition prior to surgery is large enough to justify a routine PRNA; TPN decreases morbidity and mortality in patients with previous good nutritional state but not in those with malnutrition; undernourished patients have a very high rate of complications and surgery should be delayed until a acceptable state of nutrition is achieved.
(10) Anergy is a crude measure of host resistance which may be due to malnutrition, but is probably more often due to inappropriate host responses to surgery and injury.
(11) There are a number of observations which suggest that malnutrition and decreasing pulmonary function are parallel phenomena in chronic lung disease.
(12) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
(13) The hypochromia of protein-calorie malnutrition was not included in the study, but its importance in relation to coincident tuberculosis is noted.
(14) 4) this report is the 1st to document virus particles in fecal specimens from Indonesian children, and suggests that viruses may be important etiological agents in diarrheal diseases in Indonesia, where malnutrition and diarrhea are important health problems.
(15) Malnutrition might contribute to the development of the diseases, which were improved by anti-tuberculosis therapy and hyperalimentation therapy.
(16) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(17) Hypocalcemia in seven patients (41%) had a multifactorial basis: hyperphosphaturia, septicaemia, malnutrition and cytotoxic drugs were among the probable causes.
(18) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
(19) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
(20) Cancer patients have the highest incidence of protein-calorie malnutrition seen in hospitalized patients, with significant malnutrition occurring in more than 30% of cancer patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal procedures.
Nourishment
Definition:
(n.) The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.
(n.) That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) Forty-one rats were allocated to one of 3 groups: group I (n = 13) were normally nourished rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, group II (n = 16) were semistarved rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, and group III (n = 12) were normally nourished rats which underwent sham operations.
(4) The rate of Cryptosporidium detection was similar among malnourished and well-nourished patients, as determined by weight-for-height percentiles.
(5) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(6) The findings suggested that the fetuses of the poorly nourished mothers (mean gain weight during pregnancy was only 6 kg.
(7) Hydrogen breath tests were performed in Gabon (Central Africa) after a loading dose of lactose in 67 well-nourished African children (50 with intestinal parasites and 17 unparasitized) and in 18 unparasitized young adults.
(8) Both malnourished cancer and non-cancer patients had lower values than well-nourished (p less than 0.05).
(9) During period B, 8 well-nourished patients and 10 malnourished cancer patients were used as control groups.
(10) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
(11) This study was designed to compare morphometric relationships between myelin lamellae and axons in undernourished and well nourished developing rats, and in rats nutritionally rehabilitated for two weeks.
(12) Adrenaline at 0.005 microgram kg-1 min-1 increased plasma FFA levels by 19% (P less than 0.05) in weight-losing patients while no significant alteration was observed in well-nourished patients.
(13) The well-nourished old had outcomes that did not differ from younger patients.
(14) The present study assessed development of malnourished and adequately nourished children in hospital and found that mean DQS of each group rose to a similar extent during recovery from illness.
(15) Plasma suppressive activity (PSA) was low in normal subjects and well nourished patients with benign disease and was associated entirely with alpha-2-macroglobulin (a2M).
(16) The concentration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and plasma cells was about half that seen in well-nourished children with severe nongastrointestinal infections.
(17) These infants may be at greater risk for nosocomial infection than normally nourished hosts.
(18) Developing rats were either malnourished or adequately nourished during the prenatal period by feeding their dams diets of 6% (low) or 25% (adequate) casein content 5 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy.
(19) Microvillus surface area per cell appears dependent on the number of microvilli per cell, which equals the cell flat surface times the microvillus numerical density (number of microvilli per square micrometer) in well-nourished rats.
(20) It is concluded that most of these findings can be attributed to differences in the quantity and nature of the nitrogen supplied in the basal diets and that the sheep nourished by infusion would be a suitable model for the study of factors involved in the control of urea recycling.