malnourishment

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malnutrition | American Dictionary

malnutrition
noun[ U ]
us/ˌmæl·nuˈtrɪʃ·ən/
physical weakness and bad health caused by a lack of food or by a lack of food that is good for you

Examples of malnutrition

malnutrition
It is also acknowledged that facial signs of ageing may arise through a history of illness, malnutrition or poor personal hygiene.
These local uterine factors could be affected by general maternal factors such as increasing age, poor health and physique and malnutrition.
The effects of malnutrition on child mortality in developing countries.
Probably more serious than malnutrition's impact on adult morbidity and mortality were its consequences for fertility and infant survival.
Finally, the problem of nutrition education is considered, as it has been shown that malnutrition is often due to ignorance.
On the question of malnutrition, the report was critical of the statistics that had been generated by school medical inspections.
All of the clinically available nutrition screening instruments lack sensitivity and specificity and cannot be relied on individually as definitive diagnostic tests for protein-energy malnutrition.
Clinically, malnutrition is characterized by inadequate intake of protein, energy, and micronutrients and by susceptibility to infection or disease.
Respiratory infections and diarrhoea both reached peak incidences between the ages of 6 and 24 months when children are at highest risk of malnutrition.
Although a calculated value may seem an easy alternative, it should be used with caution, especially in patients with hypertension, heart failure or malnutrition.
It is these factors and not prolonged breastfeeding per se, which account for the association with malnutrition and diarrhoeal disease.
Refeeding syndrome, nutritional deficiencies, psychological sequelae of malnutrition, all were easy to find and useful.
People debilitated by malnutrition will be all the more susceptible to disease whether known or new.
However, malnutrition is common in patients with renal failure, due both to poor oral intake and also to a catabolic metabolic state.
The general impression gained during measurements was of alert and healthy children with few overt signs of malnutrition.
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