Nutrition & Disease Management
Interview with Ms. Sylvia Lam - Nutrition and its Impact on Cardiac Rehabilitation
At a recent interview in Hong Kong, Senior Registered Dietitian Sylvia Lam (Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Australia) shared her insights on the trends and causes of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and discussed the importance of nutrition in cardiac rehabilitation programmes. This article presents highlights from the interview.
Prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Hong Kong and its risk factors
Cardiac rehabilitation program and its role in disease management
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Stool fatty acid soaps, stool consistency and gastrointestinal tolerance in term infants fed infant formulas containing high sn-2 palmitate with or without oligofructose (OF): a double-blind, randomized clinical trial
This study found that high sn-2 palmitate combined with oligofructose (OF) in infant formula resulted in less stool palmitate soaps, softer stools and other health effects.
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AAP Guideline for Screening and Management of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents
An update to the 2004 version of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines, including 30 Key Action Statements intended to foster a patient-centred approach by healthcare professionals to improve patient diagnoses outcomes
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Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty
Frailty is characterized by a ‘reduced strength and physiologic malfunctioning that increases an individual’s susceptibility to increased dependency, vulnerability, and death’, making it a major public health problem in the geriatric population
Due to the lack of guidelines in the treatment of frailty, a group of experts has recently consolidated and developed a set of evidence-based, multidisciplinary Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the identification and management of frailty for health practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region
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