Researchers develop a village level model to predict undernutrition hotspots in India and help direct public health efforts.

The mining-metallurgical industry in the central Andes of Peru is a source of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) contamination in milk, and there are no studies on the impact of their ingestion. Using flame atomic absorption spectrometry, we quantified the concentration of these metals in raw milk produced ...

Malnutrition is one of the main trouble relationship children development, it is linking of infectious disease, affect brain development, learning delay and others. The school feeding is an important action to mitigate this, but the acceptability of new and healthy products still a challenge. The...

Objective: To assess the effect of unintended births on preventive and curative care of children and their nutritional status. Design: The study uses a cross-sectional prospective design. Setting: Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) data of two rounds were used in this study. Women data file was ...

Objective: Older people in rural areas are possibly more frail due to the limited medical resources and lower socioeconomic status. Given the negative healthy outcomes caused by frailty, knowing the epidemiology of frailty in rural areas is of great importance. We tried to synthesise the existing...

In the last decade, the widespread application of shotgun metagenomics provided extensive characterization of the bacterial "dark matter" of the gut microbiome, propelling the development of dedicated, standardized bioinformatic pipelines and the systematic collection of metagenomic data into...

Background: The pharmacokinetics of primaquine [PQ] have been the subject of studies in both adults and healthy participants. However, there is no study on its pharmacokinetics in a setting of undernourishment. In India, there is evidence to show considerable malnourishment in children that in turn ...

Background: There is a gap of knowledge on the link of major dietary patterns with stunting among schoolchildren in Nepal. Objective: To identify dietary patterns in rural Nepalese households in two districts and assess their association with stunting among schoolchildren. Method: This...

Objectives: Depression and malnutrition are prevalent among people with coronary artery disease (CAD) and can affect their prognosis, but the relationship between depression and malnutrition and its co-effect on prognosis is not clear. We sought to explore that relationship and its effects....