Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Stephen M. Graham, Trevor Duke, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Post-discharge mortality among children with severe illness in resource-limited settings is under-recognized and there are limited data. We evaluated post-discharge mortality in a recently reported cohort of children with severe malnutrition and pneumonia, and identified characteristics ...
Stephen A. McClave, Mohamed Saad, Mark E. Esterle, Mary E. Anderson et al.
INTRODUCTION: Critically ill patients placed on enteral nutrition (EN) are usually underfed. A volume-based feeding (VBF) protocol designed to adjust the infusion rate to make up for interruptions in delivery should provide a greater volume of EN than the more common fixed hourly rate-based feeding ...
Muttaquina Hossain, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammod Iqbal Hossain, Mustafa Mahfuz et al.
AIM: Globally more than 19 million under-five children suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Data on efficacy of World Health Organization's (WHO's) guideline in reducing SAM mortality are limited. We aimed to assess the efficacy of WHO's facility-based guideline for the reduction of under-fi...
Zarina Nahar Kabir, Tamanna Ferdous, Tommy Cederholm, Masuma Akter Khanam et al.
ObjectiveIn 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 an elderl...
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos, Jose Antonio Carnicero‐Carreño, Juan Luis Sánchez‐Sánchez, Francisco Javier Garcia‐Garcia et al.
BACKGROUND: The association between frailty and adverse outcomes has been clearly defined. Frailty is associated with age, but different frailty evolution patterns might determine the incidence of adverse outcomes at older ages. So far, few observational studies have examined how distinct frailty tr...
Dan‐Qin Sun, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, David C. Wheeler et al.
Background: With the rising global prevalence of fatty liver disease related to metabolic dysfunction, the association of this common liver condition with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become increasingly evident. In 2020, the more inclusive term metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disea...
Ann Ashworth, Sultana Khanum
UNLABELLED: In urban Bangladesh, 437 children with severe malnutrition aged 12-60 months were sequentially allocated to treat either as i) inpatients, ii) day care, or iii) domiciliary care after one week of day care. Average institutional cost (US$) to achieve 80% weight-for-height were respectivel...
Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Zahara Abdul Manaf, Suzana Shahar, Noor Aini Mohd Yusoff et al.
PURPOSE: The consequences of combined undernourishment and decreased physical performance in older adults are debilitating and increases cost of care. To date, the information regarding the association between nutritional status and physical performance does not provide a complete picture. Most stud...
Tamanna Ferdous, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Åke Wåhlin, Kim Streatfield et al.
Abstract Objective To investigate the associations and relative impact of illness, socio-economic and social indicators for nutritional status among elderly persons in rural Bangladesh. Design A multidisciplinary, cross-sectional study employing home interviews to collect information on demographic,...
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos, Jose Antonio Carnicero‐Carreño, Betty Davies, Francisco Javier Garcia‐Garcia et al.
BACKGROUND: Frailty and sarcopenia are age-associated syndromes that have been associated with the risk of several adverse events, mainly functional decline and death, that usually coexist. However, the potential role of one of them (sarcopenia) in modulating some of those adverse events associated ...
André Briend, Suzan Zimicki
Minakshi Dhar, Nitin Kapoor, Ketut Suastika, Mohammad E. Khamseh et al.
The South Asian population is rapidly ageing and sarcopenia is likely to become a huge burden in this region if proper action is not taken in time. Several sarcopenia guidelines are available, from the western world and from East Asia. However, these guidelines are not fully relevant for the South A...
Mohammad Salim Zahangir, Md Masud Hasan, Alice Richardson, Sadia Tabassum
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: This study aims at examining the urban-rural differentials in the effects of socioeconomic predictors on underweight and obesity of ever-married women in Bangladesh. The effect of malnutrition and other risk factors on non-communicable diseases is also examined. SUBJECTS/METHO...
Md Ziaul Islam, Tasnim Rahman Disu, Sharmin Farjana, Mohammad Meshbahur Rahman
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition and depression are highly prevalent in older adults and can lead to disparaging outcomes. Analytical studies on geriatric depression (GD) and its association with malnutrition are very scarce in Bangladesh, although the size of the older population is increasing fast in the ...
Mohammad Rahanur Alam, Sushmita Karmokar, Sompa Reza, Md. Ruhul Kabir et al.
Malnutrition is the root of numerous complications ranging from physical disability to mental health problems like depression. Depending on the intensity, depression can lead to emotional fluctuations, even suicidal attempts. Geriatric health in a country like Bangladesh is often ignored, although t...