Malnutrition definition

Malnutrition means both inadequate and excessive intake of any essential nutrient.
Malnutrition means moderate acute malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition, stunting and environmental enteric dysfunction.
Malnutrition means a condition resulting from an inadequate or excess intake of food resulting in either under nutrition

Examples of Malnutrition in a sentence

  • No. 26 Doris Wiesmann, Joachim von Braun, Torsten Feldbrügge An International Nutrition Index – Successes and Failures in Addressing Hunger and Malnutrition Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Bonn, April 2000, pp.

  • Malnutrition in acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: clinical correlates and prognostic implications.

  • Global Nutrition Report 2016: From Promise to Impact: Ending Malnutrition by 2030.

  • Malnutrition as an enteric infectious disease with long-term effects on child development.

  • Malnutrition and its impact on cost of hospitalization, length of stay, readmission and 3-year mortality.


More Definitions of Malnutrition

Malnutrition. ’ means a deficiency state resulting from insufficient intake of one or multiple essential nutrients or the inability of the body to absorb, utilize, or retain such
Malnutrition. Quantifying the Health Impact at National and Local Levels.” Geneva, World Health Organization, (WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 12). xxxvi Xxxxx, P & Xxxxx, FB (2008). “Epidemiological and Nutrition Transition in Developing Countries: Impact on Human Health and Development.” Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, Vol 67: 82-90. xxxvii Xxxxx, X (2003). “Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care.” Perspect. In Biol. And Med., Vol 46(3): s24-s38.
Malnutrition means a medically diagnosed condition of poor nourishment of a child resulting from insufficient food or an improper diet caused by a parent/caretaker.
Malnutrition simply means poor nutrition and can refer to both under and over nutrition. However, it is usually used to refer to under-nutrition.
Malnutrition means both under-nutrition and over-nutrition;
Malnutrition means the condition which develops when the body is unable over time to receive or absorb adequate and appropriate calories, proteins and other nutrients required for good health, growth and maintenance of the human body and mind;
Malnutrition means lack of necessary or adequate food substances in the body that may be caused by inadequate food, quality or quantity of food substances.