Health
Tooth loss can indicate malnutrition, study says
Older adults are at risk for both impaired oral health and malnutrition, according to a study by Rutgers University researchers.
Oct 25, 2018
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Health
A simple nutrition care program improves health and quality of life among aging adults at risk of malnutrition
Baby boomers are aging and the U.S. population is too. The proportion of U.S. adults 65-and-older grew more than a third since 2010 and now includes 54.1 million adults. To help the baby boomers maintain their quality of ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Cardiology
Researchers find sudden cardiac death is associated with thin placenta at birth
Researchers studying the origins of sudden cardiac death have found that in both men and women a thin placenta at birth was associated with sudden cardiac death. A thin placenta may result in a reduced flow of nutrients from ...
Sep 19, 2012
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Health
Tackling malnutrition in older patients on the wards
Experts led by Newcastle University are designing and building a system aimed at combating malnutrition in older people in hospitals.
Nov 29, 2011
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Medications
Anti-nausea drug approved
(HealthDay)—Varubi (rolapitant) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat nausea and vomiting among adults undergoing cancer chemotherapy.
Sep 2, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nutritional acquired immunodeficiency (N-AIDS) found to be the leading driver of the TB pandemic
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer worldwide, with 10.6 million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2021 alone. One in five incident TB cases were attributable to malnutrition, more than double the number attributed ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Cardiology
Nutritional screening a potential tool for determining heart attack, angina prognosis
In a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology of more than 5,000 acute coronary syndromes (ACS) patients, 71.8% were considered malnourished by at least one nutrition screening test, and ...
Aug 10, 2020
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Health
Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths
Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back decades of progress against the most severe forms of malnutrition and is likely to kill 168,000 children before any global recovery takes hold, according to a study ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Health
First automated malnutrition screen implemented for hospitalized children
A team of clinicians, dietitians and researchers has created an automated program to screen for malnutrition in hospitalized children, providing daily alerts to healthcare providers so they can quickly intervene with appropriate ...
Oct 9, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Tool helping UC cancer institute identify patients at risk for malnutrition
A person needs nourishment from food to live and flourish.
Dec 30, 2014
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