VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
Objective: To develop a method to detect curcumin concentration in health supplement by high performance liquid chromatography with a photodiode array detector. Method: Curcurmin was extracted by sonication in methanol for 30 min and separated by a reversed phase C18 column using a mobile phase including buffer, methanol and acetonitrile.
Aims: To describe the nutritional status of hypertensive outpatients. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 350 hypertensive outpatients treated at Sam Son City General Hospital, Thanh Hoa province. Results: The average BMI was 23.6±2.8 (kg/m2) in men and 23.9±3.1 (kg/m2) in women.
Aims: To describe actual food intake of women aged 40-65 years with BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2 in Hanoi, 2016. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on women aged 40-65 years with BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2 in Hanoi, 2016. Results: The average age was approximately 52 years old with BMI= 25.6±3.8 kg/m2. The dietary energy level of the study subjects was 1628 (1589,2; 1705,5) kcal /person/day.
Aims: To describe nutritional status and anemia of girls in some secondary schools in Dien Bien and Gia Lai province in 2022. Methods: The nutritional status was classified based on height-for-age Z-score and body mass index-for-age Z-score as compared to the growth standard of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2007.
Objectives: To describe the characteristics of metabolic syndrome in women with BMI > 23kg/m2 aged 45-60 years old in Hanoi in 2016. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study on 92 women with BMI > 23kg/m2 from 45-60 years old in Hanoi 2016. Results: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in women with BMI > 23kg/m2 aged 40-65 years old in Hanoi in 2016 was 62%.
Malnutrition among children under five years old in Vietnam has been reduced significantly; however, it remains high and was distributed imbalance in different geographical, residential and ethnical areas. Objectives: to determine the prevalence of malnutrition amongst children under 5 years old and associated factors in Cong Hai and Phuoc Chinh communes, Ninh Thuan province.
The study aims to describe the situation of food safety and related factors of food service providers in Hagiang city, Hagiang province. A cross- sectional study was conducted on 120 food producers and sellers at 120 food services facilities.
Objectives: A case – control study was conducted in 126 pre-diabetic patients and 126 healthy adults in order to define some risk factors of pre-diabetes. Method: Anthropometric indices (weight, height) and levels of glucose of fasting blood samples were measured.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 501 children aged 36-59 months, who were stunted and at risk of stunting to determine zinc deficiency status and some related factors. The result showed that the prevalence of zinc deficiency was 75.6%, at the high level of public health significance.
Prevalence of hypertension has been increasing recently in Vietnam. Dietary with restricted sodium and enough potassium level is one of important controllable factors to prevent hypertension. High sodium intake contributes to high blood pressure.
A cross-sectional survey to describe the situation of nutritional anemia in pregnant women and related factors was conducted in 2013 in Ha Nam province with 657 pregnant women at 6 – 16th gestational week. Results showed that the population had anemia at moderate level of 20.7% among pregnant women.
The study was carried out to investigate effect of maltodextrin concentration (3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18%, w/v) added in Pouzolzia zeylanica extract before undergoing spray drying process, as well as operation conditions.
Objective: To describe the nutritional status of children aged 3-5 years old in some communes in Quynh Phu district, Thai Binh province.
At present, overweight and obesity arei increasing rapidly in Vietnam, causing many adverse health effects. Nutritional interventions for prevention and treatment are needed.
Objective: To investigate types of physical activities in type 2 diabetes mellitus outpatients at Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital.
The survey aims to determine stunting, wasting, and anemia status in school students in HCMC. Methods: A cross-sectional survey in 11072 school students in primary schools, junior-high schools, and high schools in HCMC to assess stunting and wasting status.
This study aims to identify the pre-pregnancy BMI and the gestation weight gain among pregnant women at their third trimester in Ho Chi Minh City Viet Nam. Methodology: A cross-sectional study among 94 pregnant women hospitalized at Tu Du hospital.
Research into the role of the human microbiome suggests that parts of it may be responsible for development of a range of diseases such as obesity and diabetes, while other parts of this microbiome may reduce the risk of developing such conditions.
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition for functional food because it has not been a clear demarcation between functional food and conventional food. In general, functional food could be considered as “any products or food ingredients containing a bioactive compound or a bioactivity that may provide health benefit beyond basic nutrients”.
Malnutrition is commonly found in critically ill children and is related to mortality or prolonged durations of inpatient treatment. Objective: To describe the nutritional status of critically ill patients and its relationship to clinical outcomes in PICU.
Over the last four decades, all Southeast Asian countries have experienced rapid advances in socio-economic development, resulting in significant changes to the lifestyle of communities, including food consumption patterns. These have led to dramatic changes in the nutritional problems.
Nutrition has an important role in medical therapy. Good nutrition care helps to decrease the hospital malnutrition, decrease the risk of hospital infection complication, shorten the health recovery period and wound healing, shorten the length of hospital stay, decrease the treatment expense, as well as contribute significantly to the quality of medical treatment and decrease the issues related to hospital overload and hospital bed sharing among tertiary hospitals in Viet Nam.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the current status of food hygiene and safety conditions of restaurants in Da Ton commune, Gia Lam district, Hanoi and the knowledge - practice on hygiene and safety among street food handlers in 2017.
The issue of food hygiene and safety is one of the urgent issues of our country today. However, there are very few researches on the knowledge and practice of people food handlers or food business establishments.