18 research outputs found
EOTAXIN SERUM LEVELS IS INCREASED IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AND CORRELATED WITH LENGTH OF DISEASE, VERBAL MEMORY PERFORMANCE, AND HIPPOCAMPUS AND FRONTAL CORTEX SIZES.
Effects of Omega-3. Dietary Supplement in Prevention of Positive, Negative and Cognitive Symptoms: A Study in Adolescent Rats with Ketamine-Induced Model of Schizophrenia
Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor is Positively Correlated with Amygdala Volume in Patients with Schizophrenia
Hippocampal volumes are correlated to inflammatory markers in early stage bipolar disorder
La version franco-canadienne du « STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology » (STROBE) Statement : L’outil STROBE
Establishing Integrated Agriculture-Nutrition Programmes to Diversify Household Food and Diets in Rural India
Agriculture is the predominant livelihood for 70 % of the population living in rural India, and food expenses occupy a major proportion of their household budget. Rural household diets suggest that agricultural growth has contributed to increasing calorie intake with very minimal effect on the intake of protein and micronutrients. This in turn causes weak positive impact of agriculture on household dietary diversity and nutrient adequacy. Given the prevalence of high levels of under-nutrition and a large population dependent on agriculture, recent thinking globally on leveraging agriculture for nutrition security has encouraged the agricultural sector to realign its focus not only to increase food production, but also to address under-nutrition. Against this background, an exploratory study was conducted in resource poor villages of Wardha and Koraput districts in the states of Maharashtra and Odisha in India, to investigate how location-specific Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) interventions can potentially improve the diversity of household diets and nutrition outcomes. A detailed baseline study was undertaken
to identify the existing disconnect between agriculture-nutrition linkages. In the study locations, the proportion of all forms of under-nutrition, vitamin A deficiency and iron-deficiency anaemia among children 18 years) significantly increased as the dietary diversity score (DDS) decreased from high to low. In Koraput, the prevalence rate of
anaemia in adolescent girls and women significantly increased, as the DDS decreased. We conclude that food and diets lacking diversity and without nutrition-sensitive farming systems (either commercial- or subsistence-based) may not be appropriate to improve household nutrition and health status. Our findings provide a basis for structuring integrated agriculture-nutrition programmes or a FSN approach to diversifying household food and diets, for improving nutrition and health in India