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Volume 8 Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904 Childhood Obesity 2018
March 15-16, 2018
March 15-16, 2018 | Barcelona, Spain
11th International Conference on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
The association between nutritional supplements and body mass index (BMI) in children in pediatric
intensive care unit
Mehnoosh Samadi and Amir Bagheri
Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Because of the direct relationship between malnutrition among ICU-hospitalized patients and the delay of recovery, the
most important action rehabilitation service for these patients while stabilizing the basic indicators is providing nutrients
especially energy requirements. When the patient's need for energy is growing increasingly, the best strategy is to use
nutritional supplements. In this study, dietary intake in PICU children was studied and the effects of a dietary supplement in
the prevention of weight loss in pediatrics were evaluated. In this cross-sectional study the study population was 880, 10-13
years old children in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Peptamen complete was used (1 kcal/ml, 16% protein (whey), 50%
carbohydrate, 34% fat). Body weight and height were measured and BMI was calculated. Total energy intake and the percentage
of energy frommacronutrients and also nutritional supplements intake were measured using three food record questionnaires.
Compared with the children in the lower quartile of nutritional supplements intake, children in higher quartile had a greater
BMI (P<0.01). In this study, we use logistic regression and adjusted the effects of confounding factors. After Adjustment for
the percentage of energy from fat the inverse association between BMI and nutritional supplements intake reached statistically
levels significant (OR in quartiles 0.90, 0.88, 0.81, 0.77), (P<0.05). Since all the energy needs of the children in ICU with regular
diet is hardly supplied and energy intake in the form of liquid supplements is better tolerated in these patients, the use of
dietary supplements is suitable to meet their nutritional requirements.
Biography
Mehnoosh Samadi has completed her PhD fromAhvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. She is an Assistant Professor of Nutritional Science department
in the School of Nutritional Science and Food Technology of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. She has published more than 10
papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute.
Mehnoosh Samadi et al., J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-057