Mohsen Taghavi; Seyyed Ali Keshavarz; Alireza Hoveyda; Asal Ataie-Jafari
Volume 3, Issue 4 , December 2020, , Pages 14-18
Abstract
Chronic renal failure (CKD) is a progressive and irreversible disease that in the final stages (ESRD), the person forever needs kidney replacement therapy such as hemodialysis. Protein-energy malnutrition is very common among hemodialysis patients and depression is also very common in these patients. ...
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Chronic renal failure (CKD) is a progressive and irreversible disease that in the final stages (ESRD), the person forever needs kidney replacement therapy such as hemodialysis. Protein-energy malnutrition is very common among hemodialysis patients and depression is also very common in these patients. This study was designed to determine the relationship between depression and malnutrition in patients undergoing hemodialysis. In this study, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale- 21 Items (DASS-21) questionnaire was used to determine depression and Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), Malnutrition Inflammation Score (MIS), and Dialysis Malnutrition Score (DMS) questionnaires were used to determine malnutrition. Demographic, anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical indicators were also examined. The study involved 100 patients (59 men and 41 women). The mean age of participants was 62.12 ± 13.22. According to the DASS-21 questionnaire, 59% of patients had depression. Also, 23%, 25%, and 23% of patients were malnourished based on the results of SGA, MIS, and DMS questionnaires. There was no statistically significant relationship between depression and malnutrition. Also, the relation between depression and most demographic, anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical variables was not significant. But there was a significant relationship between depression and the duration of hemodialysis in men (r =-0.29, p=0.02) and serum level of TIBC in all participants (r =-0.21, p=0.03). In this study, depression was not associated with malnutrition. Further studies are needed to determine this relationship.
Negin Haji-Hosseini-Gazestani; Seyyed Ali Keshavarz; Firoozeh Hosseini-Esfahani; Asal Ataie-Jafari
Volume 3, Issue 3 , September 2020, , Pages 19-24
Abstract
Obesity, as a chronic inflammation, is one of the most important health problems in the world. Increased central obesity is associated with increased inflammation. Diet plays a major role in regulating inflammation. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dietary inflammatory ...
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Obesity, as a chronic inflammation, is one of the most important health problems in the world. Increased central obesity is associated with increased inflammation. Diet plays a major role in regulating inflammation. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and obesity in Tehranian women. This cross-sectional study was performed on 199 women living in District 7 of Tehran. Food intake obtained through a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and DII was calculated. Weight, height, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) were measured or calculated. In the final analysis, the effect of age, level of education, smoking status, and physical activity was controlled. The mean age of the subjects was 37.03 years, and the mean BMI was 27.6 kg/m2. The odds of high WC increased with increasing DII score in the crude model (p=0.01) and decreased significantly in the adjusted model (p=0.04). But there was no significant relationship between DII and other variables of abdominal obesity and general obesity (p>0.05). The study states that by increasing the inflammatory index score of the diet, the chance of developing abdominal obesity (waist circumference) decreases. But this result is not true for other variables of abdominal obesity and general obesity.
