Nursing home caregivers can get a good idea of residents’ nutritional status by measuring their calves rather than calculating their body mass index with height and weight, according to recently ...

Good maternal and adolescent nutrition is required to ensure women and children’s health and nutritional status across generations. Stable isotopes are used to assess actions to improve adolescents’ ...

Credit: Getty Images A full nutrition assessment must be undertaken and, from there, appropriate interventions can be developed and monitored for improved health outcomes. Albumin may be informative ...

Monitoring linear growth and nutritional status is critical in the health care of all children. In neurotypical children, assessment is performed using growth charts published by the World Health ...

Arm anthropometry is a simple method to determine if a person is overweight or obese, and because it can distinguish between fat and muscle mass, unlike body mass index (BMI), it is a valuable method ...

Older malnourished patients experience increased surgical complications and greater morbidity compared with their well-nourished counterparts. This study aimed to assess whether nutritional status at ...

New Rochelle, NY, March 23, 2017--Arm anthropometry is a simple method to determine if a person is overweight or obese, and because it can distinguish between fat and muscle mass, unlike body mass ...

Malnutrition is highly prevalent among patients with chronic liver disease and is nearly universal among patients awaiting liver transplantation. Malnutrition in patients with cirrhosis leads to ...

In war, disaster or famine-stricken areas, charities often report the number of children suffering malnutrition in terms of percentages—one in 10, one in five, one in three. But did you ever wonder ...