Nutrition plays a pivotal role in life and in medicine. Acute and chronic diseases in most organ systems have pronounced effects on food intake and metabolism with increased catabolism, which lead to nutrition-related conditions associated with increased morbidity and eventually death. At the other end of the spectrum, diet is a major determinant of future health, i.e. the absence or postponement of disorders like cardio-vascular disease, diabetes, cancer and cognitive disease. Malnutrition can be defined as “a state resulting from lack of intake or uptake of nutrition that leads to altered body composition (decreased fat free mass) and body cell mass leading to diminished physical and mental function and impaired clinical outcome from disease” .
Nutritional screening and assessment
Hearing impairment screening
Cognitive neuropsychology
Diabetes management
Hypoglycemia screening
Visual routine
Mental retardation screening
Growth hormone deficiency screening