Darryl P. Leong, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patricio López‐Jaramillo et al.
BACKGROUND Reduced muscular strength, as measured by grip strength, has been associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Grip strength is appealing as a simple, quick, and inexpensive means of stratifying an individual's risk of cardiovascular death. However, the pro...
Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan et al.
Background The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American populations where nutrition excess is more likely, so their applicability to other populations is unclear. Methods The Prospective Ur...
Sofie Vermeiren, Roberta Vella-Azzopardi, David Beckwée, Ann-Katrin Habbig et al.
Introduction Frailty is one of the most important concerns regarding our aging population. Evidence grows that the syndrome is linked to several important health outcomes. A general overview of frailty concepts and a comprehensive meta-analysis of their relation with negative health outcomes still l...
Neeraj Narula, Emily C L Wong, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relation between intake of ultra-processed food and risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: 21 low, middle, and high income countries across seven geographical regions (Europe and North America, South America, Africa, Middle Eas...
Darryl P. Leong, Koon Teo, Sumathy Rangarajan, V. Raman Kutty et al.
Abstract Background The measurement of handgrip strength (HGS) has prognostic value with respect to all‐cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular disease, and is an important part of the evaluation of frailty. Published reference ranges for HGS are mostly derived from Caucasian po...
Lindsey Lenters, Kerri Wazny, Patrick Webb, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) affect approximately 52 million children under five. This systematic review evaluates the effectiveness of interventions for SAM including the World Health Organization (WHO) protocol for inpatient management...
Shankuan Zhu, Stanley Heshka, ZiMian Wang, Wei Shen et al.
OBJECTIVE: BMI (kilograms per meters squared) and waist circumference (WC) (measured in centimeters) are each associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Therefore, a combination of the two may be more effective in identifying subjects at risk than either alone. The present ...
Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Martin O’Donnell et al.
AIMS: To develop a healthy diet score that is associated with health outcomes and is globally applicable using data from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study and replicate it in five independent studies on a total of 245 000 people from 80 countries. METHODS AND RESULTS: A healthy d...
Emma Osland, M. Belal Hossain, Shahjahan Khan, Muhammed Ashraf Memon
BACKGROUND: Pharmaconutrition has previously been reported in elective surgery to reduce postoperative infective complications and duration of hospital length of stay. OBJECTIVE: To update previously published meta-analyses and elucidate potential benefits of providing arginine-dominant pharmaconutr...
Kisha Coa, Joel B. Epstein, David S. Ettinger, Aminah Jatoi et al.
Patients undergoing cancer treatment experience a multitude of symptoms that can influence their ability to complete treatment as well as their quality of life during and after treatment. This cross-sectional study sought to describe the dietary changes experienced by cancer patients and to identify...
D. Gilgen, C. G. N. Mascie‐Taylor, L. L. Rosetta
We conducted a randomized clinical intervention trial over 24 weeks on a tea estate in north‐east Bangladesh to investigate the effect of iron supplementation and anthelmintic treatment on the labour productivity of adult female tea pluckers. A total of 553 full‐time tea pluckers, not pregnant and n...
John Muscedere, Melissa K. Andrew, Sean M. Bagshaw, Carole A. Estabrooks et al.
RÉSUMÉ Avec le vieillissement de la population canadienne, la fragilité – avec son risque accru du déclin fonctionnel, la détérioration de la santé, et le décès – devient de plus en plus répandue. La physiologie de la fragilité reflète son origine parmi organes et systèmes multiples. Environ un quar...
Alice Tang, Mei Chung, Kimberly R. Dong, Paluku Bahwere et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine if a global mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) cut-off can be established to classify underweight in adults (men and non-pregnant women). DESIGN: We conducted an individual participant data meta-analysis (IPDMA) to explore the sensitivity (SENS) and specificity (SPEC) of vari...
Tania Sultana, Md. Nazmul Karim, Tahmeed Ahmed, Md Iqbal Hossain
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Body-mass-index (BMI) is widely accepted as an indicator of nutritional status in adults. Mid-upper-arm-circumference (MUAC) is another anthropometric-measure used primarily among children. The present study attempted to evaluate the use of MUAC as a simpler alternative to ...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
Abstract Objective In stating the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations aims to halve malnutrition around the world by 2015. Nutritional status of the elderly population in low-income countries is seldom focused upon. The present study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of malnutrition among...