Thousands of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition, including low birth weight, wasting, stunting, underweight, and multiple micronutrient deficiencies such as vitamin A, iron, zinc, and iodine deficiencies.
More than half the nursery's charges are below their proper weight ("wasted" in the jargon) or short for their age ("stunted", a result of years of undernourishment).
The simplified score was generated using the following indicators and weights: jaundice (weight, 1.0); subcostal indrawing (weight, 1.0); prostration ± seizure (weight, 2.0); altered consciousness (with seizures, weight, 2.0; without seizures, weight, 3.0); wasting (weight, 1.0).
For years, undernutrition - manifested by a child with low height for age (stunting), low weight for age (underweight), low weight forheight (wasting), and/or deficient in vitamins or minerals (micronutrient deficiencies) -- has been a persistent problem, but one receiving little attention as well as lack of funding.
And, since mass collection gives better prices per weight, waste pickers in co-operatives can earn more money.
The glomerular filtration barrier is necessary for the selective passage of low molecular weight waste products and the retention of blood plasma proteins.
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Many PWID are affected by weight loss, wasting, and micronutrient insufficiencies.
Eighteen cows were hospitalized for poor condition, anorexia, weight loss, wasting syndrome, and abnormal cardiac auscultation.
The CB1 cannabinoid receptor and its endogenous ligands, the endocannabinoids, are involved in energy balance control, stimulating appetite and increasing body weight in wasting syndromes.
Severe weight loss (wasting), failure-to-thrive, and pneumonia are clinical signs common to both PRRS and PCV-2 [ 10, 13].
