Browsing by Subject "nutrition"
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Agricultural Drivers of Children’s Nutrition and Food Security in Mvomero, Tanzania
(2017-04-26)The main research question assessed in this paper is: What land use and agricultural practices most significantly influence nutritional and food security outcomes? In particular, are there specific crop growing or selling ... -
Development of a Nutritional Screening Tool for Pediatric Cancer Patients in Uganda and Tanzania: An Exploratory Analysis
(2020)Background: Nutrition is a key determinant of pediatric cancer patient outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurately identifying pediatric cancer patients at risk of malnutrition remains a challenge. There is a need ... -
Developmental Regulation in Response to Nutritional Status in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2019)Developmental physiology is very sensitive to nutrient availability. For instance, in the nematode C. elegans, newly hatched L1-stage larvae require food to initiate postembryonic development. Despite the essential role ... -
Dietary Patterns, Nutritional Status, Prevalence and Risk Factors for Anemia among School Children in Naama Community, Uganda
(2015)Background: The disease burden of malnutrition, anemia, malaria and helminth infections among school-aged children is rarely studied in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) although these children are still at a high ... -
Immediate Post-operative Enterocyte Injury, as Determined by Increased Circulating Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein, Is Associated With Subsequent Development of Necrotizing Enterocolitis After Infant Cardiothoracic Surgery.
(Frontiers in pediatrics, 2020-01)Objectives: 1 Measure serial serum intestinal fatty acid binding protein levels in infants undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass to evaluate for evidence of early post-operative enterocyte injury. 2 Determine ... -
Insights into the genetic basis of early-life starvation-induced germline abnormalities in C. elegans
(2017-05-13)Humans subjected to starvation early in development are especially prone to a wide variety of diseases such as cancer, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease later in life. Here, we use the model system C. elegans in order ... -
Lettuce Improve School Nutrition: Best Practices and Key Impacts of the USDA Farm to School Grant Program
(2017-04-11)As national and global food systems have industrialized over the last several decades, many children no longer know where food comes from, how to prepare and cook it, or why some foods are healthier than others. American ... -
Overcoming Childhood Obesity: Barriers to the Implementation of Obesity Prevention Policies in Elementary Schools
(2012-12)Childhood obesity rates in the United States have been increasing at alarming rates. Schools must play an integral role in obesity prevention efforts to reverse current trends. In order to understand how schools can improve ... -
The Use of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) as a Nutrition Indicator for Adolescents in Tanzania
(2018)Background: While adolescent nutrition has not historically garnered attention in public health programming, assessing adolescent nutrition is necessary in addressing cycles of chronic disease, intergenerational malnutrition, ...
