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adjective
- 1. very poorly fed or nourished: "a half-starved prisoner"
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1 day ago · 406,000 from nutritional deficiencies (2015) [ 10 ] Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems. [ 11 ][ 12 ] Specifically, it is a deficiency, excess, or imbalance of energy, protein and other nutrients which adversely affects the body's tissues and form.
1 day ago · Though they had endured increasing privations and were half-starved due to the Allied blockade by mid-1918, the German people had retained their morale surprisingly well as long as they believed Germany had a prospect of achieving victory on the Western Front. When this hope collapsed in October 1918, many, and perhaps even most, Germans wished ...
3 days ago · Extraordinary cell division mechanism discovered in common dental plaque bacteria. In the formula, B is the number of bacteria present at the start of the observation, b is the number present after the time period t, and n is the number of generations.
1 day ago · Hospital-acquired malnutrition (HAM) is a significant issue among malnourished long-stay patients. Future research should explore whether factors such as length of stay, tertiary facilities and rehabilitation or subacute wards could assist with screening for HAM.
1 day ago · A gang-fueled social and political crisis in Haiti has swollen the ranks of those suffering severe hunger in recent months, with an estimated 5.4 million Haitians having run out of food and gone a ...
5 days ago · In this study, patients with scores of ≥3 were defined as having physical frailty. The GLIM criteria define malnutrition as meeting at least one phenotypic and one etiologic criterion [ 13 ]. Since all patients included in this study were hospitalized owing to HF decompensation, they were suggested to have a chronic inflammatory disease ...
1 day ago · Catastrophe or famine-level hunger is defined as having almost no food despite using all coping strategies, leading to starvation, destitution and death. Those experiencing severe hunger are up ...
