Nutrition Assessment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A diet quality index for American preschoolers based on current dietary intake recommendations and an indicator of energy balance. 
  • An instrument to assess the obesogenic environment of child care centers. 
  • Are family meal patterns associated with overall diet quality during the transition from early to middle adolescence? 
  • Assessment of citrate concentrations in citrus fruit-based juices and beverages: implications for management of hypocitraturic nephrolithiasis. 
  • Breast cancer and dietary factors in Taiwanese women. 
  • Cancer-related fatigue. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • Characteristics and dietary patterns of adolescents who value eating locally grown, organic, nongenetically engineered, and nonprocessed food. 
  • Clinical insights: Understanding the link between nutrition and pressure ulcer prevention. 
  • Clinical practice guidance for radiotherapy planning after induction chemotherapy in locoregionally advanced head-and-neck cancer. 
  • Combination of flavor enhancement and chemosensory education improves nutritional status in older cancer patients. 
  • Confirmatory factor analysis of the Infant Feeding Styles Questionnaire in Latino families. 
  • Correlation of vitamin E, uric acid, and diet composition with histologic features of pediatric NAFLD. 
  • Development and implementation of a visual card-sorting technique for assessing food and activity preferences and patterns in African American girls. 
  • Development and reliability of an observation method to assess food intake of young children in child care. 
  • Dietary intakes in North Carolina child-care centers: are children meeting current recommendations? 
  • Effects of early nutritional interventions on the development of atopic disease in infants and children: the role of maternal dietary restriction, breastfeeding, timing of introduction of complementary foods, and hydrolyzed formulas. 
  • Endovascular aneurysm repair is associated with less malnutrition than open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Evaluation of the Healthy Eating Index-2005. 
  • Fish intake is associated with slower cognitive decline in Chinese older adults. 
  • Fruits and vegetables taken can serve as a proxy measure for amounts eaten in a school lunch. 
  • Gastric versus duodenal feeding in patients with neurological disease: a pilot study. 
  • Growth patterns and gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatric patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Higher dietary variety is associated with better nutritional status in frail elderly people. 
  • How we eat what we eat: identifying meal routines and practices most strongly associated with healthy and unhealthy dietary factors among young adults. 
  • Influence of Nutrition and Nonnutrition Factors on Pressure Injury Outcomes Among At-Risk Asian Nursing Home Residents. 
  • Intake of specific nonfermented soy foods may be inversely associated with risk of distal gastric cancer in a Chinese population. 
  • Malnutrition in liver transplant patients: preoperative subjective global assessment is predictive of outcome after liver transplantation. 
  • Maternal Dietary Patterns are Associated with Lower Levels of Cardiometabolic Markers during Pregnancy. 
  • Nutrition and aging. 
  • Nutrition and function: is there a relationship between body mass index and the functional capabilities of community-dwelling elderly? 
  • Nutrition assessment of the critically ill adult. 
  • Nutritional issues in adolescents after bone marrow transplant: a literature review. 
  • Nutritional risk and time to death; predictive validity of SCREEN (Seniors in the Community Risk Evaluation for Eating and Nutrition). 
  • Nutritional status among young adolescents attending primary school in Tanzania: contributions of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for adolescent assessment. 
  • Overall diet quality and age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Patient and program outcome assessment in pulmonary rehabilitation: an AACVPR statement. 
  • Prevalence and Determinants of Suboptimal Vitamin D Levels in a Multiethnic Asian Population. 
  • Primary care providers' self-efficacy and outcome expectations for childhood obesity counseling. 
  • Promoting healthy eating and physical activity in adolescents. 
  • Protein and aminoacid requirements of infants, children and adults. 
  • Quality control of the nutritional component of the Growth Failure in Children with Renal Diseases Study. 
  • Rationale and evidence for menu-labeling legislation. 
  • Reliability and validity of a brief questionnaire to assess calcium intake of middle-school-aged children. 
  • Response from the editor. 
  • Serum prealbumin and albumin concentrations do not reflect nutritional state in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Standardised coding of diet records: experiences from INTERMAP UK. 
  • Summary points and consensus recommendations from the North American Surgical Nutrition Summit. 
  • The effect of supplementary processed protein foods fortified with essential vitamins and minerals on the growth and nutritional status of undernourished weaned infants. 
  • The malnourished surgery patient: a silent epidemic in perioperative outcomes? 
  • The metabolism of nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus in children on a poor Indian diet based on maize (Zea Mays). 
  • The metabolism of nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus in undernourished children. 7. The effect of partial or complete replacement of rice in poor vegetarian diets by pearl millet (Pennisetum typhoideum). 
  • The metabolism of nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus in undernourished children. 8. The metabolism of nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus, and the digestibility coefficient and biological value of the proteins and the net protein utilization on poor Indian diets based on rice, maize or a mixture of rice and maize. 
  • The supplementary value of certain processed protein foods based on blends of groundnut, soya-bean, sesame, chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) flours and skim-milk powder to a maize--tapioca diet. 
  • The third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: findings and policy implications for improving the health of US children. 
  • Trends in energy and macronutrient intakes by weight status over four decades. 
  • Using a short food frequency questionnaire to estimate dietary calcium consumption: a tool for patient education. 
  • Validation of a web-based dietary questionnaire designed for the DASH (dietary approaches to stop hypertension) diet: the DASH online questionnaire. 
  • Validation of dietary intake data in black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Watch me grow: a garden-based pilot intervention to increase vegetable and fruit intake in preschoolers. 
  • What does it mean to be "at nutritional risk"? Seeking clarity on behalf of the elderly. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Brouwer, Rebecca, Dir, Research Initiatives, School of Medicine
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Wischmeyer, Paul Edmund, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine