OBESITY AND OUTCOME AMONG PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED FOR SARS-COV-2: A HOSPITAL-BASED STUDY IN INDONESIA.

Background: Patients with obesity who have SARS-CoV-2 are at significant risk for developing serious clinical problems that need intensive care and have a bad prognosis.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine obesity and outcome among patients hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 at the Indonesia's national referral hospital.

Methods: This study used a retrospective cohort.

Factors driving and inhibiting stunting reduction acceleration programs at district level: A qualitative study in West Sumatra.

Stunting prevalence varies significantly across Indonesian provinces and districts/municipalities, including West Sumatra. This research aims to identify the driving and inhibiting factors for implementing the stunting reduction acceleration program at the district level in West Sumatra. The research was conducted in 2022 with a qualitative study design and a case study approach.

Monitoring continuity of maternal and child health services, Indonesia.

Objective: To implement an online system to evaluate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on maternal and child health and nutrition essential health services in Indonesia.

Methods: We developed an electronic monitoring and evaluation system to assist district health offices in making rapid assessments of the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health and nutrition programmes in their area and in developing policy and programme responses. This implementation research was conducted from September to December 2020 in 304 districts.

Children's Perception and Belief about Medicines: Effectiveness and Its Autonomy.

Background: The use of medicines in children is usually always under the supervision of parents. Children are considered not to understand the concept of medicine properly. Children's perceptions of medicine are mostly formed from everyday experience.

The Difference in Maternal Serum Hypoxia-Inducible Factors-1α Levels between Early Onset and Late-Onset Preeclampsia.

Background: Preeclampsia can be divided into early (EOPE) and late (LOPE) onset preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is related to the failure of placentation. Accumulation of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF)-1α is commonly an acute and beneficial respond to hypoxia, while chronically elevated is associated with preeclampsia.

The Knowledge and Attitudes about the Benefits, Risks and Use of Medicine in Aged Primary Students in Indonesia.

Background: Medication always has a ratio of benefits and risks to become a safety measure. Therefore, its use must be careful, especially for children, because it can potentially occur drug incidents in children. As drug users, children are required to be active in using it, but children's knowledge and attitudes about benefits, risks (dangers) and use of medicine are still very shallow and fragmented.

Dietary Fibre Protective against Colorectal Cancer Patients in Asia: A Meta-Analysis.

Background: The association between dietary fibre and colorectal cancer risk is controversial.

Aim: This systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to determine the dietary fibre protective against colorectal cancer patients in Asia.

Methods: The authors conducted a meta-analysis of published research articles on dietary fibre protective against colorectal cancer patients in Asia published between January 2000 and March 2019 in the online article databases of PubMed, ProQuest and EBSCO.

Contemporary Minangkabau food culture in West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Diet has a strong relationship with food culture and changes in it are likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of newly emergent degenerative diseases. To obtain in-depth opinions about the food culture of Minangkabau people, focus group discussions were conducted in a Minangkabau region, represented by four villages in West Sumatra, Indonesia, from January to March 1999. The members of the discussion groups were principally women aged from 35 to 82 years old.

Factors associated with coverage of iodine deficiency disorders by control programs in an endemic area in West Sumatra, Indonesia.

In order to ascertain the coverage and to identify factors determining the success of an iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) control program in West Sumatra, Indonesia, a cross-sectional study among 495 school children aged 6-15 years in a subdistrict of an endemic goitre area was conducted. Coverage of iodine capsule distribution was 27%. Forty-eight percent of the households used iodized salt with an appropriate concentration (>= 40 p.