VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
The study was conducted in 1382 adolescents aged 11 – 17 in Secondary and High schools in Bac Ninh province and Hanoi city from September 2001 to January 2002. Weight, height and triceps skin – fold thickness were measured then the nutritional status was classified to base on BMI for age.
This research aimed at evaluation the efficacy of Zn complement in the early stage of malnutrition in children (i.e from the time when the children started its energy consumption decline with fatal concomitant disorders in the pathological circle).
This study showed that PDP (chitosan) can be used as food additive in some of Vietnamese traditional food products such as pork luncheon & rice crepe. Perceptible test: Food products with PDP additive look like as those with borax (p>0,05) and are different from ones without food additive (p<0.05).
The study aimed to assess nutritional status of children under 5 and knowledge and practices on child feeding and care of mothers with children under 5 in Phu Linh commune. This is a cross-sectional de scriptive survey in a selected commune with representative sample of mothers with children under 2 and children under 5.
The vitamin A (VA) status and their related factors in the communes whose prevalence of PEM less than 15% and less than 30% (in WA & WH) were analyzed, some conclusions were followings: No significantly different on serum – VA concentrations in children, but significantly higher on breast–milk VA ub the communes with PEM < 15% than that in communes with PEM < 30% were onserved.
Norovirus is currently recognized as the leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. Due to limited data on the occurrence of this pathogen in foods in Vietnam, the objective of this study was to investigate the contamination prevalence of Norovirus in Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) collected in markets in Hanoi.
Though food security is observed nationalwide, there is still a risk of food shortageat households in some disadvantaged areas of Vietnam. The risk has been predicted and reported increases as a consequences of climate changes and financial crisis globally.
Nutrient composition and stability during storage of the refined oil products extracted from catfish were investigated. Refined oil samples were collected based on ISO 2625:2007 for the analysis of minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, total lipid content, saponification index, and peroxide value.
Instant powder enriched with protein was produced from soybeans, calcicarbonate, vitamin D3 and some other auxiliary materials is good for pregnant women. DT 58 soybean varieties were dried at 1100C for 110 minutes and roasted at 1200C for 70 minutes, then shelled and ground into flour.
The author suggested several methods to improve the quality and safety in the production of fish sauce and Soya sauce, relating to their ingredients, process and techniques used.
The study on contamination of food borne bacterial pathogen in food items available in the canteens of kindergarten school in Hanoi was carried out from October 2004 to January 2005 to provide data on microbiological contamination of food items with respect to Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli contamination.
The aim of this research is to study the antimutagenic activity of sticky rice cooked with various fruits, vegetables and legumes. Fruits and vegetables rich in carotenoids including ivy gourd leaves, the fruit from Momordica cochinchinensis and pumpkin, two kind of legumes mungbean and black bean E and sticky rice colored by being cooked with these fruits, vegetables and legumes were sequentially extracted with n-hexane and 80% ethanol.
Objective: To identify the prevalence of chronic energy deficiency (CED) and describe body composition characteristics of reproductive aged H’Mong women in Cao Bang in 2014. Methods: 144 subjects, H’Mong ethnic group, aged 15-49 years old from 4 communes Bao Toan, Khanh Xuan, Xuan Truong, Phan Thanh of Bao Lac district, Cao Bang province participated in the study.
The study described the differences in diets during pregnancy period among 50 rural women in 2011-2014 in Cam Khe district, Phu Tho province. Method: Using 24h recall method to collect dietary data of the subjects in two inconsecutive days at 3 time points: baseline (pre-pregnancy), 16th, and 32nd gestational week.
The study was conducted on 1,657 women from 40 to 65 years old in 6 wards and communes in 3 areas of Thai Binh province. These women are measured humerus and tibia density by Osteoporosis ultrasound scan ALOKA (Japan) and were evaluated osteophenia rate. The results of the study have shown that: In radius: Average T-score: is -1.19±1.7, the rates of osteophenia and osterporosis are 29.9% and 20.8%, respectively.
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) tends to increase and rejuvenate. HCMC has many nutritional interventions for prevention and treatment, striking the key role of a specialized nutrition unit. HCMC Nutrition Center has implemented many nutrition interventions in the prevention and treatment of T2D including epidemiological surveillance, screening, counseling, treatment, communication to manage T2D in HCMC.
A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to define the proportion of right knowledge, attitude, practice on food safety of managers and working staffs contacting directly with food handling at collective kitchens in the industrial zone in Hung Yen province in 2014. 78.8% of the managers and 80.9% of food handlers knew about food-borne diseases.
Malnutrition, particularly stunting is still a public health problem with a very high prevalence in Vietnam. This retrospective cohort study aimed to investigate the association between early childhood stunting with cognitive performance and their determinants among Vietnamese schoolchildren in a commune of Ha Tay province of Vietnam.
In Vietnam, besides the malnutrition status maintaining in a high prevalence, overweight and obesity prevalence is increasing, especially in big cities like Ho Chi Minh city. In order to get a general view of the situation of overweight and obesity status of people in Ho Chi Minh city, cross-sectional surveys in large and small scales were conducted to determine the prevalence from 1996 to 2001 and to identify related factors to this problem.
The study was conducted on 332 patients on September 2013. With cross-sectional descriptive design, the study aimed to describe the situation of dietary caring for hospitalized patients in internal medicine department of Friendship Vietnam – Cuba hospital in Dong Hoi, Quang Binh in order to improve nutrition care quality for the patients, this reducing malnutrition, mortality and prolonged hospital stay.
Dietary is a treatment therapy of primary intestinal lymphangiectasia (PIL). To reach appropriate diagnosis, it is necessary to have close co-ordination between GIs, nutritionists and anapathologists. Objectives: report a case of PIL in Pediatric Hospital 2, and diagnosis and treatment of PIL in children. Methods: case report. The child was admitted in Pediatric Hospital 2 in June, 2015 for 30 days, and had routine follow-up after.
Objectives: To evaluate the accuracy of the index of waist-to-hip ratio (WTHR) and propose the optimal thresholds of WTHR in the definition of childhood obesity population, who come to Consultation Department of Nutrition of hospital Nhi Dong 2. Methods: A Cross sectional study conducted on 204 children, 102 obese and 102 non-obese, who were grouped into 6 groups by age and gender, each group contains 17 children. (<6 years old, 6-<10 years old, ≥ 10 years old, male/female).
The study was to understand the practices and influential factors on breastfeeding practices in Rang Dong town of Nghia Hung, Nam Dinh. A cross sectional design was applied using in-depth interview and FGD techniques. Results showed that: Several practices such as pre-lacteal feeding due to C-section, mothers being painful after delivery, and slow breast milk “coming-down” were the main barriers of early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding.
The cross-sectional study assessed the distribution system of multi-micronutrient supplementation; knowledge, practices of both pregnant women and women aged 15-49 on using multi-micronutrient supplementation at 4 communes in Kon Tum. Combining secondary data analysis, structured questionnaire interviews, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, the results showed that a distribution system of multi-micronutrient supplements has been deployed at these communes in Kon Tum.