VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
The study was conducted in Social Protection and Support Centers of 15 Northern provinces aiming at describing the current nutritional situation of the children and some risk factors. Methods: Nutritional status of the children was assessed by anthropometric indicators and the centers’ care givers and cooks were interviewed.
An assessment of the current food intake and nutritional status among adolescent girls was carried out on 1202 female students at secondary and high schools in Duy Tien (Ha Nam province).
A cross -sectional study was conducted in 1217 subjects in Hai Duong city to determine the rate of overweight/ obesity and blood lipid disorders among overweight/ obesity targets ageds 30-59. The subjects with BMI ≥ 25 voluntarily participated in the study. Their total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-C, LDL-C were identified to determine the rate of blood lipid disorders in obese people.
Ensuring adequate nutrition for patients during hospitalization enhances the ability to fight diseases and compensate lost energy caused by injuries. Objectives: To assess the ensuring of nutritional status in patients receiving nursing care level 1 at Intensive Care Unit in Military Hospital 354 and to describe factors associated to the ensuring of nutrition demand for patients at Intensive Care Unit.
The study was conducted in June/2008 in Nui Doi town - Kien Thuy district – Hai Phong. Objectives: to determine malnutrition rate and describe some risk factors related to malnutrition in children. Subjects: 313 children under 5 and 313 mothers were enrolled in the study. Child malnutrition was classified by WHO method using NCHS reference and comparing with WHO – standard growth.
The proportion and number of elderly is increasing in developing countries. However, information on nutritional status of this group is limited. To identify the prevalence of under and over weight, serum lipid dysfunction, and nutritional related factors in the elderly. A cross–sectional survey was conducted in Ho Chi Minh City in 2001.
Probiotics are lives intestinal microorganisms enhancing the capability of digestion and immu-nization of the body that have been well know and used for a long time. Zinc is an important mi-cronutrient for the body development. Zinc is a component of some key enzymes in metabolism chain that enhances human immunization.
The study was conducted on September 2007 in 2100 school children in 4 primary schools and middle-schools in Soc Son district, Hanoi. Objective to assess nutritional status of school children 6-14 years old and related factors.
Một nghiên cứu bệnh - chứng được thực hiện trên 226 trường hợp trẻ sơ sinh tử vong trong năm 2004, và 227 trẻ sinh trong thời gian từ 1/1/2004 đến 31/12/2004 hiện còn sống (cùng giới, cùng độ tuổi và cùng địa bàn với trẻ tử vong) trên toàn bộ 232 xã phường tại Hà Nội cho thấy: Tỷ suất tử vong sơ sinh toàn thành phố Hà Nội năm 2004 là: 7,35%o, ngoại thành 9,9 ‰, cao hơn nội thành, 5,6‰), cao nhất tại huyện Sóc Sơn 13,9%0.
A study was conducted in 2008 in 4029 restaurants and food kiosks by interviewing the 4029 owners in 14 districts of the old Hanoi. The objective is to assess knowledge and practices on food safety with cross-sectional descriptive and analytical method. The results showed that majority of owners were females (72.1%) and they used to be farmers or unemployed (56.2%). Most of them had less than 2 assistants (89.7%).
Objective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics, feeding techniques, physical developmental ratio for infant under 6 months old who were at first visit the nutritional department of the No2 Children’s Hospital from 2008-2009. Methods: Descriptive study.
The cross-sectional study was conducted in June 2005 in 513 children under 5 belonging to Satieng, Chau Ma and Kinh minority and 648 women aged 15 – 49 in Ta Lai commune, Tan Phu district, Dong Nai province. Food survey was also conducted in 135 households.
A longitudinal study on physical growth and nutritional status of children was carried out in 2 districts (Hoan Kiem and Hai Ba Trung) in Hanoi city. The objective of the study was to investigate the physical growth, nutritional status of the stunted children in early age, about 300 newborns during the first years of the 1990¢s were followed up from birth to 17 years old.
Malnutrition increases the time of treatment, the incidence of complication and mortality in children. However, assessment of the child’s nutritional status in the hospitals is not received attention and evaluated routinely as in the community.
Birth weight is defined to be closely associated to maternal nutritional status before conception and during pregnancy. The collecting and monitoring of data on birth weight in rural Vietnam encounter many difficulties, leading to the underestimation of low birth weight rate.
This paper reports the developement of an analytical method for the determination of BPA in food, water and packaging materials. BPA is extracted by using mixture of tricloacetic acid 2%: methanol (9:1) then the extractive fluid is washed through Oasis HLB cartridge. The final solution is analysed by liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC-MS).
The roles of protein and multi-nutrients in children diet are essential, particularly for their growth and development. Diet quality of rural people is remarkably poor compared to that of urban people.
A cross-sectional study was carried out at the end of 2005 to assess the nutritional status in children 11-14 years old in Binh Luc district, Ha Nam province. Body weight, height of 2671 children (male/female= 50.6%/49.4%) were collected and compared with those of Vietnamese children of the same age and gender in 2 previous periods: before 1975 and between 1981‑1985.
120 subjects aged 30-60 years old with abnormal blood lipid indicators received 4 capsules of garlic-folate/day for 12 weeks (3 months). The results indicate that the intervention group has some positive results in lipid indicators: significant reduction of total cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol, compared to that at the beginning of the study and with the control group; trend of reduction of triglyceride and HDL-cholesterol was observed, but not significantly.
With the aim of study is to evaluate current nutritional status of workers in Thai Nguyen Steel Factory and related factors, a cross- sectional and retrospective study was carried out. The results showed that: The rate of overweight and obesity is high (43.67%). The rate of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes is also high (41.67%).