VIETNAM NUTRITIONAL PORTAL
Aims: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of malnutrition and sarcopenia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients receiving outpatient treatment at Binh Thanh District Hospital.
Aims: The study was conducted to evaluate the situation of microbial and chemical contaminations in raw materials and vegetarian foods collected in Hanoi in 2022-2023.
This study was carried out to determine the nutritional status, prevalence of anemia, intestinal parasitic infection, and some common infectious diseases among school-aged children in low socioeconomic areas in rural northern Vietnam.
Aims: To determine the prevalence of malnutrition and related factors in children with biliary atresia being treated at Children's Hospital 2.
Aims: This study focused on the development of a recipe for protein-rich nutrition bars (NB) using dried soybeans, puffed brown rice, and whole black sesame seeds.
Food safety has become an area of primary concern over the past several decades, especially since sociological statistics show a linear association between increased incidence of chronic the level of industrialization, which is associated with environmental pollution, and the scale of industrially processed foods.
In our country the evidence on the nutrition transition have occurred, are being made recently. Double burden of malnutrition, common phenomenon in the nutrition transition in developing countries has been reported in Vietnam on a remarkably.
Aims: The study was conducted to describe the dietary characteristics of cirrhosis inpatients with mental disorders treated at Thai Binh Psychiatric Hospital in 2022.
This review article briefed the challenges of food hygiene and safety control in Vietnam with updates on the current situation, including the globalization trends, the acceleration of food poisoning and food-born diseases, issues in food production, management and circulation, poor knowledge and practice of consumers.
Aims: To evaluate an intervention to improve malnutrition in children from 12 to 36 months old by supplementing multiple micronutrients combined with health education communication.
Objective: This study was to identify the prevalence of malnutrition in patients admitted to gastroenterology and endocrinology ward in Bach mai hospital. Methods: 308 patients admitted to a gastroenterology and endocrinology ward were enrolled in the investigation.
Seventeen different kinds of amino acids were quantified in a study, using high performance liquid chromatography method (HPLC) in the Lab of Food hygiene and food safety control center of the National Institute of Nutrition.
After the Renovation, Vietnam’s economy has been developing rapidly. As the results, Vietnamese people’s diets have also been improved. To assess the change on Hanoi outskirt citizens’ diets, a study “Household dietary changes after 6 years (1999 - 2005) in 6 communes of Dong anh district, Hanoi” was conducted in May and June, 2005 and compared with data in 1999.
Tay Nguyen Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology carried out investigation on pesticide residue in green vegetables at two cities and two towns in 4 provinces of Tay Nguyen. The results showed that: Green vegetables with pesticide residue have the average rate of 61.20%, the rate of samples having pesticide residue with excess of the allowable criterion was 6.8%.
This study was carried out on healthy adults aged from 20 to 34. Two experiments: drinking glucose and eating moon cakes containing isomalt were taken by these subjects and at least one week apart.
The assessment of food safety and sanitary conditions at 20 kitchens of half day boarding primary schools in Dong Da, Hanoi was carried out from February to August, 2007. The results indicated that: 50% of kitchens did not meet with the sanitary conditions and water supply requirements of the Ministry of Health.
A cross-sectional study in 11 sub-districts of Thanh Hoa city was conducted during 2006-2007 with 240 ready-to-eat food samples, 30 cooking utensil samples, 40 cooker hand samples, and 310 KAP interviews to food vendors. Results revealed that the contamination rate of street foods and cooking utensils was upto 57.74%.
HPLC method to determine the content of vitamin D (D2 and D3) in food is widely used in the world. The sample is saponified with an ethanol solution of potassium hydroxide at room temperature overnight or at 75 degree C for an hour.
The main objective is to determine the prevalence of diabetes and related factors in Danang. The research is a comparative cross-sectional study of 2100 subjects in the age groups from 20 to 64 years old. The sample was selected systematically by probability proportional to size method. The diabetes prevalence in 20-64 year-old group in Danang was 7.38%.