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Outdoor Air Pollution
Published in William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel, Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4, 2017
William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel
In case of adaptation, which often occurs in chemical sensitivity, fails, ER stress results in the expression of genes involved in programmed cell death pathways or a hypersensitive response covering up the toxic damage until it is too late.166 One sees the wasting syndrome in some chemically sensitive patients who are intolerant of most foods, therefore, losing weight and developing atrophied muscle in other tissues. Recent discoveries indicate that prolonged ER stress and UPR play an important role in the development of several human diseases, particularly chronic ones, including insulin resistance, diabetes,167–169 PD, AD, ALS,170–172 tumor formation, and a progression173,174 of atherosclerosis, cardiomyopathy, chronic kidney diseases, and renal failure.175,176
Recovery Rate and Treatment Outcome in Children Aged 6–59 Months with Severe Acute Malnutrition Admitted to Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding, in Ethiopia
Published in Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 2023
Beshada Rago Jima, Birhanu Gonfa, Binyam Girma Sisay, Amare Worku Tadesse
Acute undernutrition (wasting) is a condition in which a child becomes too thin for his or her height because of weight loss or failure to gain weight.1 Globally, 45.4 million children under five were suffered from wasting, and of this 13.6 million were affected by severe wasting.1 Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) leads to over one million children’s death each year.2 Children suffering from SAM have a 5–20 times greater risk of death than well-nourished children. About 15% of children with SAM require admission to inpatient treatment in stabilization centers.2 In 2020, it was estimated that more than 12.1 million African children under the age of five were affected by wasting.1 According to the 2019 Mini Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) report, 7.2% of children under five were wasted.3
Explaining Child Nutritional Status in Rural Nigeria: Socioeconomic Dimensions
Published in Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 2021
Oluwakemi Adeola Obayelu, Oluwakemi Rachael Adeleye
Children whose weight-for-age is below minus two standard deviations (−2 SD) from the reference population median are classified as underweight. The weight-for-height (WHZ) index is an indicator of thinness or wasting. Wasting is short-term malnutrition due to acute starvation owing to chronic dietary deficiency or disease. Wasting indicates current or acute malnutrition resulting from failure to gain weight or actual weight loss. It is associated with the causes include inadequate food intake, incorrect feeding practices, diseases, and infection.