Sentence examples for lead to undernutrition from inspiring English sources

In such patients, inadequate oral intake can lead to undernutrition in 8 to 12 days (1).

Faulty breastfeeding and poor complementary feeding can lead to undernutrition [ 5- 7].

7, 8 These are some of the predisposing risk factors that may lead to undernutrition among older adults.

Maternal preeclampsia/eclampsia, hypertension during pregnancy and chronic kidney disease may influence the nutrition conditions in the womb and often lead to undernutrition of the foetus.

These circumstances may impact nutritional status negatively, 1 and can result in inadequate food intake, which is known to lead to undernutrition.

Long-term hospitalisation and antipsychotic therapy decrease gastrointestinal motility, 32 and may lead to undernutrition in patients with standard weight and overweight/obesity.

While flooding afflicts the country's northern and central regions, the population in the south has been overwhelmed by a severe drought, which has led to undernutrition, water and sanitation problems and a loss of agricultural livelihood.

Maternal CMD might lead to infant undernutrition through a variety of mechanisms [ 17, 20].

In West Bengal, it focuses on feeding practices that lead to child undernutrition and encourages parents to change faulty eating habits.

In this regard, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in its malnutrition conceptual framework and other related literatures, identified three major risk factors that could lead to child undernutrition, namely, basic or structural, underlying (behavioral), and immediate (biological) risk factors [ 14, 16].

This finding was in agreement with evidence from similar studies in which subsequent births led to child undernutrition [ 23].