The double burden of malnutrition in Vietnamese school-aged children and adolescents: a rapid shift over a decade in Ho Chi Minh City.

Background/objectives: Vietnam is undergoing a nutrition transition, which is leading to marked shifts in body size at the population level, but up-to-date data are lacking. We therefore quantified the prevalence of undernutrition (stunting and thinness) and overnutrition (overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity) in school-aged children in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMc), Vietnam, and compared this with previous estimates.

Subjects/methods: A cross-sectional survey of 10,949 children (6-18 years old) from 30 schools in HCMc, Vietnam in 2014-2015 was used to ascertain the nutritional status of children and adolescents.

Validity, reliability and feasibility of nutrition screening tools NRS-2002 and MST administered by trained medical doctors in routine practice.

: This study aims to prospectively assess the validity, reliability and feasibility of two nutrition screening tools NRS-2002 and MST combined with BMI (MST+BMI) after administration by medical doctors in hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Viet Nam.: Participants were 150 adult patients (validity study), 30 adult patients (reliability study) and 40 medical doctors (feasibility study) in three wards from three general public hospitals in HCMC. Area Under the ROC curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and percent of correctly classified were calculated to determine validity against SGA or BMI.

Effectiveness of a theory-based foot care education program (3STEPFUN) in improving foot self-care behaviours and foot risk factors for ulceration in people with type 2 diabetes.

Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of a theory-based foot care education intervention program (3STEPFUN) for people with type 2 diabetes at low risk of developing a foot ulcer.

Methods: A controlled, pre-test/ post-test quasi-experimental design was used. From 119 participants, 60 participants in the control group received usual care and a foot care brochure.

Prevalence and associated risk factors of malnutrition among hospitalized adults in a multisite study in Ho Chi Minh city Viet Nam.

Background And Objectives: This study aims to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of malnutrition in adults in acute care settings.

Methods And Study Design: A cross-sectional study among 883 participants from 6 representative general public hospitals was conducted during April and May 2016. Participants were considered malnourished if they were classified using Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) as malnourished (B or C) or with BMI <18.

Validity of four nutritional screening tools against subjective global assessment for inpatient adults in a low-middle income country in Asia.

Background/objectives: Hospital malnutrition is a common problem worldwide. This study aims to assess the validity of widely used nutritional screening tools for hospitalized adults in acute care settings in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Subjects/methods: Participants in this study were 693 adult patients from six general public hospitals, in a multi-center survey undertaken in April and May, 2016.

Plasma NOx concentrations in glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes. A case-control study in a Vietnamese population.

Aim: The Vietnamese develop type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic syndrome (MS) at a lower BMI than other ethnicities. Thus, biomarkers that identify subjects at an increased risk of T2D independently of obesity are being sought. Recent studies show that circulating NO metabolites (NOx) are increased in T2D.