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Food insecurity can be both a consequence and a driver of HIV/AIDS. It is often difficult to disentangle these two roles of food insecurity, since the HIV epidemic has different drivers in different settings. The advent of antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings adds an additional laye...
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PMID: 21214035
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Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of infectious disease mortality (1.8 million/year), after HIV/AIDS. There are more than 9 million new cases each year. One-third of the world's population, and 50% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and SouthEast Asia, are infected, representing an...
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PMID: 21214037
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HIV infection and malnutrition negatively reinforce each other.
For program guidance, to review evidence on the relationship of HIV infection and malnutrition in adults in resource-limited settings.
Adequate nutritional status supports immunity and physical performance. Weight loss, caused by low di...
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PMID: 21214036
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Interventional nutrition is an emerging field in medicine that utilizes advanced laboratory technologies to identify a patient's clinically relevant biochemical uniqueness in order to treat the metabolic contributors to multifactorial symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, and pain. This article presen...
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PMID: 21140764
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It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that the quality of life and nutritional status of older adults residing in health care communities can be enhanced by individualization to less-restrictive diets. The American Dietetic Association advocates for registered dietitians to assess...
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PMID: 20882714
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It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that efforts to optimize nutritional status through individualized medical nutrition therapy, assurance of food and nutrition security, and nutrition education are essential to the total system of health care available to people with human immu...
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PMID: 20645459
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T cell dysfunction significantly increases susceptibility to infections and organ failure after trauma or surgery (physical injury). This coincides with a persistent drop in arginine availability, a necessary amino acid for normal T cell function. Recent data led to the identification of a novel mec...
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PMID: 20643302
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Maintenance of nutritional status is particularly challenging during critical illness. There is a common perception of a race against the clock to adequately feed the patient to prevent or minimize the sometimes catastrophic muscle wasting and general catabolic state that can result in the patient's...
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PMID: 20643298
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We are in a "revival" period in clinical nutrition in critical care, especially in the area of "pharmaconutrition." Adequate nutrition may hinge not only on how many calories are provided but also on the ability to provide key pharmacologically acting nutrients. Traditionally, nutrition has been vie...
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PMID: 20643297
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Roya Kelishadi,
Mahin Hashemipour,
Nizal Sarrafzadegan,
Noushin Mohammadifard,
Hasan Alikhasy,
Maryam Beizaei,
Firouzeh Sajjadi,
Parinaz Poursafa,
Zahra Amin,
Shohreh Ghatreh-Samani,
Noushin Khavarian and
Zahra Dana Siadat
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This study aimed to assess the effects of a 2-month lifestyle modification trial on cardio-metabolic abnormalities and C-reactive protein (CRP) among obese adolescents with metabolic syndrome [phenotypically obese metabolically abnormal (POMA)] and obese adolescents without a cardio-...
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PMID: 20929499
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Although randomized clinical trials on early nutrition for premature infants remain relatively sparse, evidence is accumulating on its beneficial effects both on the short-term and long-term. However, some research also warns for adverse effects. SUMMARY: Despite the fact that substantially improved...
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PMID: 20216411
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Three (12%) participants were nutritionally impaired and two (8%) were deemed 'at risk'. Although GPs suspected a (pre-) malignancy in 11 cases (46%), only two (8%) documented weight loss or BMI and four (17%) nutrition-related complaints in their referral letters. Medical records more often contain...
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PMID: 20690398
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Massimo Francesco MF Piepoli,
Ugo U Corrà,
Werner W Benzer,
Birna B Bjarnason-Wehrens,
Paul P Dendale,
Dan D Gaita,
Hannah H McGee,
Miguel M Mendes,
Josef J Niebauer,
Ann-Dorthe Olsen AD Zwisler,
Jean-Paul JP Schmid and
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Increasing awareness of the importance of cardiovascular prevention is not yet matched by the resources and actions within health care systems. Recent publication of the European Commission's European Heart Health Charter in 2008 prompts a review of the role of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to cardiov...
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PMID: 19952757
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Inflammatory bowel disease is an entity with not wellknown pathogenesis, and important nutritional and metabolic implications because of the high prevalence of malnutrition, the possible implication of dietary factors in its pathogenesis and because of the hypothesis that nutritional intervention co...
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PMID: 20449527
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Caustic injuries to gastrointestinal tract are not frequent, they are found mainly in young patients with suicidal intent and are associated with high mortality, especially in severe injuries. This aggression causes important catabolic state leading to a negative nitrogen balance and weight loss. Th...
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PMID: 20449531
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Suboptimum blood pressure is estimated to be the leading risk factor for death worldwide and is associated with 13.5% of deaths globally. The clinical diagnosis of hypertension affects one in four adults globally and is expected to increase by 60% between 2000 and 2025. Clearly, global efforts to pr...
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PMID: 20847986
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This comprehensive experimental study had the objective to determine the optimum ratio of calcium and vitamin D used as additives in food compositions and provide an experimentally-based rationale for the use of new functional dairy products and evaluation of their nutritional value....
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PMID: 21395057
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We summarize beneficial dietary techniques in the fight against AD....
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PMID: 20308778
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This paper examines how nutrition has been used to raise humanitarian relief resources through the United Nations appeals process, from 1992 to early 2009. Recent calls for "nutrition safety nets" as a response to the world food price crisis reflect a growing recognition of nutrition as a key elemen...
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PMID: 20496628
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We found that almost all the formulas prepared with scoop had higher osmolality and variability than the same products prepared by weight. Some follow up, polymeric, 1 to 4 years formulas and complete beverages had high osmolalities and therefore should not be administered to infants, and must be ad...
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PMID: 20306717
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The open abdomen is a relatively new and increasingly common strategy for the management of abdominal emergencies in both trauma and general surgery. The use of an abbreviated laparotomy can reduce mortality associated with conditions such as abdominal compartment syndrome; however, the resulting op...
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PMID: 19998714
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We review nutrients and their potential to maintain muscle mass and strength which ultimately will help minimize falls and fractures among the older population. Evidence from randomized-controlled trials will be reviewed for muscle mass as well as important sarcopenia-related endpoints including low...
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PMID: 19657560
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This article forms part of a series looking at the relationship between diet and good health, and the role of the dietician in the primary health care team. This review highlights some of the physical, social and medical factors that can indicate compromised nutritional status in the elderly, the sc...
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PMID: 19575069
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Apart from these perturbations, increasing evidence points to alterations in intestinal morphology, permeability, and absorption function in patients with CHF. This review provides an overview of the sonographic, histological, and functional abnormalities of different gastrointestinal regions. This...
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PMID: 19474718
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Immunonutrition suffers from inconclusive and contradictory data due to the design of many of experiments and clinical studies conducted so far. The concept of a single immunonutrient formula applicable to various types of patients has also contributed to leave the medical world in a state of uncert...
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PMID: 19474715
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We observed no changes in the number of participants with hypomagnesaemia in either group, whereas hypozincaemia was found in only 1 participant in the control group and 1 in the instructed group (changes in the instructed group were significant; p < 0.05). Nutritional intervention benefited our par...
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PMID: 19658276
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BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on global weight loss prevention programs for patients with dementia or clear evidence about their impact on a functional level, caregiver burden or the use of healthcare and social resources. NutriAlz is a socio-educative and nutritional intervention program to p...
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PMID: 19536421
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Obese patients with chronic osteoarthritis treated with a mixed diet supplemented with a commercial hypocaloric formula improved weight, fat mass and HOMA in a better way than patients treated with a dietary counselling alone....
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PMID: 19368937
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In view of the small sample size and retrospective nature of the study, the results need to be interpreted with caution. However, the study adds to current limited knowledge on feeding and nutrition in Apert syndrome. Further prospective multidisciplinary and objective research is clearly warranted....
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PMID: 19642754
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Present evidence suggests that impairment in cardiac muscle energetics plays an important role in the pathogenesis of heart failure. New concepts such as microRNA expression are emerging as potential agents in heart failure. Recent research suggests mechanisms by which inflammatory catabolic states...
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PMID: 19363338
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a syndrome commonly seen in the ICU. It is usually multifactorial rather than the result of a primary renal disease. The difficulty of adequately defining the syndrome has been addressed by the acute dialysis quality initiative, leading to the risk, injury, failure, loss...
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PMID: 19346936
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Thirty-two mid-reproductive-aged overweight and obese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome, most of whom had never exercised regularly, lost 3% to 4% of baseline weight, body mass index, and circumference of waist and hip while participating for 8.8 +/- 2.7 weeks in a medically supervised fitness...
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PMID: 18555225
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Malnutrition is widespread in geriatric patients, but often unrecognized and untreated. The main barriers against implementation of adequate nutritional care are seen in low nutritional awareness, lack of knowledge, interest and responsibilities but also in established procedures and lack of standar...
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PMID: 18398632
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After the 12-week period, reference patients significantly gained weight (P = 0.001), whereas intervention patients showed significant weight loss and decreased body mass index (P = 0.02); interaction between groups: P < 0.01. This weight loss was accompanied by a decreased cholesterol-high-density...
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PMID: 19321034
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Healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) represents one of the largest subsets of patients with pneumonia. Based on epidemiological projections for the aging U.S. population, the number of hospitalizations for HCAP is expected to increase exponentially for the next several decades. The unique risk fac...
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PMID: 19199190
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The electronic protocol allows data collection of clinical, laboratorial and radiological parameters. The final version includes 6694 parameters, 392 distributed in Admission and 6302 in Evolution. CONCLUSION: the creation of a database for pediatric patients in nutrition therapy was possible, the c...
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PMID: 20076871
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These findings demonstrate that nutritional support is used to treat already malnourished patients with shorter survival time, rather than to prevent malnutrition. A more structured approach to nutritional issues for patients in palliative phases, which considers life expectancy and psycho-social as...
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PMID: 18528714
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Abnormality of serum phosphate levels, which is one of CKD-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) , causes many complications such as cardiovascular disease and affects quality of life and prognosis. In CKD patients, phosphate uptake including food intake is one of the most important factor of phosphat...
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PMID: 19182357
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Epidemiologic studies in the Research Institute of Nutrition showed that dietary patterns of the Russian population are on the whole at variance with the balanced feeding formula largely due to excessive consumption of animal fat, insufficient consumption of proteins, vitamins, micro- and macroeleme...
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PMID: 19256251
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