Example sentences for: malnutrition

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  • Risk factors determined for the syndrome include: age [ 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12], imbalance of electrolyte [ 5, 7, 10], hypotension [ 1, 7], hyperglycemia [ 1, 7, 8], azotemia [ 7, 12], fever/hypothermia and infections [ 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15], use of multiple drugs and withdrawal of alcohol [ 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16], male sex [ 7, 10], severe diseases such as cancer, cerebrovasculary or cardiopulmonary disease, malnutrition and burn [ 1, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18], patients who have been operated on and kept in ICUs [ 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19], and psychosocial environment [ 1, 3, 5, 20].

  • Failure to recognise food with a high enough caloric content could mean a slow death from malnutrition.

  • Therefore, the disease attributed to hookworm is silent blood loss leading to iron deficiency anemia and protein malnutrition.

  • This particular desaturase is a regulatory enzyme in the pathway responsible for the biosynthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in both the n-6 and n-3 fatty acid families [ 24 ] . Since children with SCD exhibit some of the characteristics of malnutrition, such as lower weight-for-age and lower lean body mass, the activity of the)5-desaturase in these children may be decreased, resulting in lower proportions of the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in both serum and membrane phospholipids.

  • The Global Burden of Disease Database, maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), collects data from countries around the world on risk factors such as tobacco, malnutrition, childhood abuse, unsafe sex, childbirth, and cholesterol levels, as well as on disease burdens, for example depression, blindness, and diarrhea.


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