VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
The Vietnam – Netherlands Nutrition project implemented in the 10 disadvantaged provinces in Vietnam aims for capacity building of nutrition staff at all levels. This specific study is part of the final evaluation of the project to evaluate the project’s results in improving capacity at grass-root level.
Reinforcing capacity and effectiveness of the nutrition service network in both community and health care facilities is one of the six important objectives of the national nutrition strategy (NNS) for 2011 – 2020, with a vision toward 2030. A cross-sectional description study was carried out to assess the capacity building for the implementation of the NNS.
Nutrition plays a key role in the whole process of human growth and development. In the fetal period, the fetus develops from an egg cell to 2x1012 cells at delivery and 30 times more when the body is totally mature.
The progress of malnutrition reduction and the Z-scores W/A, Z-scores H/A and Z-scores W/1-I were examined through national surveys on malnutrition among children under 5 years old from 1990 to 2004 in order to classify changes and to set up suitable outcome for the plan of child malnutrition control.
A prospective study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition counseling and dietary management to stabilize blood glucose of 160 gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) patients after 2 weeks. The result showed that the efficiency of nutrition counseling after 2 weeks reached 80%.
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.
Nutrition practices play an important role in treatment and prevention of complications of diabetes mellitus. Objective: To describe nutritional practices and some related factors of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 440 outpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Dong Anh general hospital, Hanoi - using pre-designed questionnaire interview method.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to describe nutritional status of 255 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, aged 18-70 years old, admitted for inpatient treatment at the clinical nutrition & dietary department, national hospital of endocrinology, 2020. The results showed that: Normal nutritional status according to BMI was accounted for the highest proportion of 62.0%; overweight-obesity was 33.3%...
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.
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.
The study was carried out in over six months on 450 children from 7-8 years old in three primary schools in Yen Phong District, Bac Ninh Province. The selected children were divided into three groups: group 1 was given milk enriched with multi -micronutrients, group 2 - standard milk, and group 3 was the control group.
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.
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.
The traditional Vietnamese diet based primarily on foods of plaint origin (rice, legume, vegetable and fruit) have several beneficial properties according to current knowledge of nutrition. At present time, the nutrition situation of Vietnam is in the period of transition.
Cách tính tuổi và phân loại lớp tuổi: Sử dụng cách tính tuổi và phân loại lớp tuổi của WHO 1983, 1995. Các nhóm tuổi trong đánh giá thừa cân, béo phì như sau: Ví dụ: Trẻ dưới 1 tuổi: Từ sơ sinh đến 11 tháng 29 ngày. Trẻ < 5 tuổi là: Từ sơ sinh đến 59 tháng 29 ngày. 5 – 9 tuổi là: 60 tháng đến tròn 8 năm 11 tháng 30 ngày. 10-19 tuổi: 10 tuổi – 18 năm 11 tháng 30 ngày.
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.
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of heath education on re-infection with intestinal worms and physical growth among primary school children in rural areas, a study was carried out in 25 primary school of Ha Nam province, using design of "randomized controlled intervention trial”.
Serum vitamin A (VA) concentration of children under 5y, milk –VA levels, and some related – risk factors were assessed by using WHOs’ reference, to determine the sub – clinical VA deficiency in 4 ecologicals areas in Vietnam, in order to carry out the methods oriented to liquid the VA deficiency during the next years.
Diabetes mellitus is chronic and common disease, affecting millions people, both male and female, every age group and education level on the word. Dietary intake is one of treat methods. The food that make less increased the blood glucose if found to be good for diabetes mellitus patients.
Aims: To describe nutritional status and anemia of girls in some secondary schools in Dien Bien and Gia Lai province in 2022. Methods: The nutritional status was classified based on height-for-age Z-score and body mass index-for-age Z-score as compared to the growth standard of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2007.
A prospective study method was used to determine characteristics of gestational diabetes, including epidemiological ones, prenatal history, glycemic index of oral glucose tolerance test and pre -pregnancy nutritional status of 170 patients who examined and received outpatient treatment at Tu Du hospital in 2019.
Many kinds of rice, cassava and sweet potatoes spirits produced by Traditional Fermentation Methods have been carried out for a long time in Vietnam. This study aimed to evaluate some traditional methods and find the way to improve the quality of sweet potatoes spirits and reduce the harmful by- products such as Aldehydes, Methanol, Esters, etc. by choosing the best traditional yeast cakes, fermentation conditions and duration of maturation of distilled Spirits following the Vietnamese standards for spirits with higher content of alcohol.
A randomized community controlled trial was carried out in 3 communes of Thua Thien Hue province to assess the impact of early supplementation of high dose of VA on ponderal and linear growth of infants from birth to 6 months of age and the safety of VA supplementation.