AI Article Synopsis
- Most ways to check if babies and kids are getting enough nutrition depend on measurements like height and weight, but this can be tough to do in some countries.
- Traditional methods only show how long or heavy kids are, not how their body shapes might affect their health.
- This new study suggests using special techniques to look closely at body shapes in Senegalese kids to better understand how nutrition affects their growth and to identify malnutrition more accurately.
Article Abstract
Current methods for infant and child nutritional assessment rely on anthropometric measurements, whose implementation faces technical challenges in low- and middle-income countries. Anthropometry is also limited to linear measurements, ignoring important body shape information related to health. This work proposes the use of 2D geometric morphometric techniques applied to a sample of Senegalese participants aged 6-59 months with an optimal nutritional condition or with severe acute malnutrition to address morphometric variations due to nutritional status. Significant differences in shape and size body changes were described according to nutritional status, resulting age, sex and allometric effect crucial factors to establish nutritional morphological patterns. The constructed discriminant functions exhibited the best classification rates in the left arm. A landmark-based template registering body shape could be useful to both assess acute malnutrition and better understand the morphological patterns that nutritional status promotes in children during their first 5 years of growth and development.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895927 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82727-x | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Nutritional status in pediatric patients with predominant antibody deficiency.
Biomedica
December 2024
Servicio de Inmunología Clínica y Alergia Pediátrica, HOMI Fundación Hospital Pediátrico de La Misericordia, Bogotá, D. C., Colombia.
Introduction: Predominant antibody deficiency is the most frequent group of innate immunity errors, but information about patients’ nutritional status is scarce.
Objectives: To characterize the nutritional status of Colombian patients with predominant antibody deficiencies.
Material And Methods: Material and methods.
The performance of upper arm circumference for age in diagnosing severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 59 months in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Lwiro Cohort.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
École Régionale de Santé Publique, Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Background: The studies on the use and performance of the Mid-Upper Arm Circumference for age (MUACZ) for the diagnosis of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are still rare. Our study aimed to analyze the performance of MUACZ for diagnosis of SAM in South Kivu, eastern DR Congo.
Methods: We analyzed a database of children admitted from 1987 to 2008 for management of SAM in the east of the DRC.
Cost-effectiveness of decentralising acute malnutrition treatment with a standard or simplified treatment protocol: an economic evaluation in the region of Gao, Mali.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Nutrition and Health Department, Action Against Hunger, Madrid, Spain.
Background: Acute malnutrition treatment coverage remains low worldwide, causing significant morbidity and mortality. Decentralisation of treatment to Community Health Worker (CHW) sites has shown to be an effective strategy to improve access and increase coverage, but evidence on the cost and cost-effectiveness of this approach as well the use of simplified treatment protocols in conflict settings is lacking. The objective of this study was to determine cost per child treated as well as the cost-effectiveness of the hybrid model of treatment delivery (where treatment is provided at both health facilities and CHW sites) using either a standard protocol (Intervention 1) or simplified protocol (Intervention 2) compared to standard treatment at health facilities only (Control) in the conflict affected region of Gao in Northern Mali.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdmission outcomes and their associated factors among children admitted to the paediatric emergency unit within 24 hours of Dilla University Referral Hospital, Ethiopia, 2023: a cross-sectional study.
BMJ Open
January 2025
Department of Nursing, Bule Hora University, Bule Hora, Ethiopia.
Background: Children in paediatric emergency units are those who need special attention, and unless treated early, they are a vulnerable population to unwanted outcomes like death, discharge against medical advice or referral to other institutions within 24 hours.
Objectives: To assess admission outcomes and their associated factors among children admitted to the paediatric emergency unit of Dilla University Referral Hospital, Ethiopia, 2023.
Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study design was employed among children admitted to the paediatric emergency unit at Dilla University Referral Hospital from 8 May 2023 to 8 June 2023.
Background: Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is a cytokine responding to oxidative stress and inflammation, and it regulates appetite and energy balance. The association between GDF15 and clinical factors and its prognostic value in elderly multimorbid patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) have not been well unknown.
Methods: This exploratory analysis is part of the Prospective mUlticenteR obServational stUdy of patIenTs with Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction study (N=1231), an ongoing, prospective, multicentre observational study of acute decompensated HFpEF (UMIN000021831).
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!