High malnutrition levels are being reported among both adults and children.
"These are unacceptably high malnutrition levels in very young children [6 to 23 months]," said Flora Sibanda-Mulder, a senior nutrition consultant with UNICEF Yemen.
Spatial autocorrelation refers to the occurrence of an event such as high malnutrition levels, which constrains or makes a similar event more probable in a neighboring unit.
Foundation for growth Just five years ahead of the MDG deadline, high malnutrition levels in rural parts of Syria threaten to pose a considerable problem for the future of the country.
However geriatric patients often have an average-high malnutrition level partly due to neoplastic cachexy and partly due to physiological deterioration caused by the age and concomitant pathologies too.
High malnutrition rates, a silent emergency in DRC Kinshasa, RD Congo, 6 April 2010 - Nutrition surveys carried out in DRC have found unusually high levels of malnutrition in children living in five provinces.
The primary caloric source is rice, and malnutrition levels are high (Ahmed 1992).
About a quarter of children do not reach their first birthday; malnutrition levels are high and rising; enrolment and academic achievement are falling; and adolescents are becoming increasingly frustrated.
Despite notable improvements in child nutrition since the height of the famine crisis in 1997, malnutrition levels remain high: 42 per cent of all children fewer than seven years of age are stunted and 70,000 acutely malnourished children are at risk of dying.
In this scenario, unemployment rates are high in both rural and urban areas, there is high pressure on natural resources and malnutrition levels and rural poverty have reached critical levels.
Malnutrition levels are especially high in India's poorest and most heavily populated states.
