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Nutritional Assessment Flashcards

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a comprehensive approach to diagnosing nutrition problems that uses a combination (medical, nutrition, medication histories, physical examination; anthropometric measurement and laboratory data

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Nutritional Assessment

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ABCDEF Methods

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Anthropometry
Biochemical and Biophysical
Clinical
Dietary
Ecological
Functional

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The measurement of physical dimension and gross composition of body

example: weight, height body circumference, body fat

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Anthropometry

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Measuring a nutrient or it’s metabolite in blood, feces or urine or measuring a variety of other components in blood and other tissue that have relationship to nutritional status

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Biochemical and biophysical

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Used to detect signs and symptoms of malnutrition

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clinical

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are disease manifestations that the patient is usualy and often complains about

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symptoms

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are observations made by a qualified examiner during physical examination

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signs

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generally inolves survey measuring the quantity (quality) of the individual foods and beverages consumed during the course of one to several days or assesing the pattern of food use during the previous several months

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dietary

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assessment of ecological factors that are used to indicate nutritional status of an individual or population

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ecological

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a process to identify an individual who is malnourished or who is at risk for malnutrition to determine if a detailed nutrtion assessment is indicated

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nutrtional screening

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conducted to generate baseline nutrtional data, to learn overall nutrition status , and to identify subgroups at nutritional risk

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nutritional survey

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is a systemic approach used to detect malnutrtion and identify population at risk of suffering from it

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nutrtional surveillance

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the development of a disease and the chain of events leading to that disease

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pathogenesis

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indicates a bad nutrtional status

  • refers to all deviation from adequat nutrition
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malnutrition

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the physiological state of an individual, which result from the relationship between nutrient intake and requirements and from the body’s ability to digest absorb and use these nutrients

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nutritional status

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a deficiency state due to lack of and/or one or more of the essential nutrients

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undernutrition

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examples of overnutrition

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obesity
overweight

14
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also known hidden hunger
- quality of fod people eat does not meet their nutrients requirement

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micronutrient deficiency

15
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refers to an excess of one or more nutrient but usually due to an excess energy

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overnutrition

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different types of undernutrition

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  • normal
  • wasting
  • stunting (low height for age)
  • underweight (low weight for age)
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an excessive accumulation of fat

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obesity

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body weight in excess of a particular and sometimes used as an index of obesity

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overweight

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caused by inability of the body to absorb certain nutrients or result from a poor diet

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imbalance

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deficiency of a specific nutrient

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specific deficiency

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excessive intake of a specific nutrient

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toxicity

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types of malnutrition

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acute
chronic
primary
secondary

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related to current state of nutrition, leading to rapid weight loss or failure to gain weight normally

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acute malnutrition

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related to pass state of nutrition, leding to failure of linear growth

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chronic malnutrition

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occurs when one or more nutrients are missing from the diet

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primary

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occurs when the supply of nutrients is adequate but deficiencies arise due to malabsorption

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secondary malnutrition

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