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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Medical Nutrition"”.
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Implementing and evaluating a weight reduction program for diabetic patients at a primary health care facility in the Western Cape
… health costs for virtually every society. Medical Nutrition Therapy is important for the prevention, treatment, self-management of diabetes and the prevention or delay in onset of diabetes-related complications. The current nutritional guidelines for DM states that carbohydrates should make …
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Nutrition Students’ Perception of OSCE & its effect on Perceived Readiness to Clinical Placement
<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Explore nutrition and dietetic students’ perception of the educational value of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) and to examine the change in their perceived readiness to practice after completing three OSCEs.</p> <p><strong>Participants</strong>: …
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Butyrate-induced upregulation of intestinal glucose transport and signaling pathways represent a possible nutrient therapy for individuals with malabsorptive disorders
… treatment of severe malabsorption often requires medical nutrition support strategies, including parenteral nutrition (PN), that are costly and associated with complications when administered as a long-term solution. Beyond the financial burden of intestinal diseases, there is an added price of …
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Nutrient Drug Interaction Probability Scale (NDIPS): A Creation and Validation Process
… Contributing factors include limited nutritional expertise among clinicians, reliance on outdated anecdotal evidence, and lack of consensus on objectively assessing DNIs. As a result, DNIs often go undetected, leading to preventable adverse events or unnecessary dietary restrictions. …
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Lipoprotein Lipase Inhibitor Removal During Ultrafiltration of Renal Failure Patients
<p>Plasma samples were obtained from seven hypertriglyceridemic (>150 mg/dl) chronic renal failure patients before and after regular hemodialysis. The effect of the plasma on the lipolytic activity of bovine milk lipoprotein lipase was investigated. The lipoprotein lipase activity, as measured by …
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The Influence of Low Dietary Fat Intake on Incidence and Severity of Migraine Headache
<p>Migraine headaches are a common and debilitating syndrome causing untold suffering and loss of productivity. A review of the literature indicates that there are two primary factors involved in triggering these headaches: high levels of blood lipids and high levels of free fatty acids. Under …
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Dietary intake, cost of foods and associated factors of women with gestational diabetes
… five years following their index pregnancy. Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) is essential in the treatment of GDM in combination with physical activity, lifestyle and behaviour change and a need exists for appropriate counselling and education. In low socioeconomic areas, implementing healthy …
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The Effects of Curcumin On Body Composition of Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
<p>Cachexia is very common among patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and is a marker of poor prognosis. Weight loss in cachexia is due to both adipose and muscle compartments, and sarcopenia (severe muscle depletion) is associated with worse outcomes. Curcumin has shown a myriad of biological …
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Development of a Web-Based Patient Case Study Template for Nutrition Education
The file named "kleinbelinda.pdf" is the primary dissertation file. The file named "KleinB_ms_website.zip" is a zipped file folder with 719 files (in 22 folders) that are necessary to run the developed website. The file named "index.htm" is provided as an example of how the page would be …
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Assessing Nutrient Composition of Skimmed Human Milk for Treatment of Chylothorax and Very Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency Patients
… NIFA Programs Area Priority Code A1344a Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases program and<strong> is significant</strong> because it will inform human milk skimming methods and nutrient fortification practices for newly diagnosed VLCAD deficiency or chylothorax patients so …
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Vitamin D Levels Affect Survival in a BCR-ABL Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Mouse Model but Do Not Cause Vitamin-Drug Interactions
<p>It is a well-established phenomenon that dietary components containing CYP3A inducers or inhibitors if co-administered with drugs that are CYP3A4 substrates lead to marked drug-drug interactions. Because vitamin D is known to regulate intestinal CYP3A expression and gut CYP3A expression plays an …
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The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome among Hispanic Women
… support. Staying Healthy Assessment required for MediCal recipients was used as a measurement for health behaviors. Descriptive inferential statistics and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals estimated the magnitude of associations.</p> <p><strong>Findings: </strong>The sample of 150 Hispanic …