#Malnutrition

Serum albumin, a protein measured by a common lab test, has a large inverse relation with mortality.Why?Thread In very old people, albumin was a more important risk marker than traditional
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#BREAKING Thousands of rightwing activists from covid-blighted interior of oil-rich US descend on coastal capital, Washington DC, to protest use of vote counting to determine election winners. Many fear math's
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Do you ever see this chart? People are fond of whipping this out to show how AWESOME capitalism is by totally WRECKING POVERTY. It seems hard to argue with it!
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Today, 600,000 of India’s 1 million accredited social health activists (#ASHA workers) have gone on strike for 2 days to demand better and timely pay, and a legal status that
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1/ In this thread i will explain why nearly the entire medical & scientific world has everything backwards regarding SARS-CoV-2 & why over focusing solely on virus itself & what
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Present COVID predicament wud have been averted if KKM had heeded SOP:1 Quarantined Sabah returnees who r Super-Spreader(SS) persons 2 Re-tested returnees from Sabah PRN- SS event3 Dealt appropriately with
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Munga/ Moringaceae/ Moringa/ Drumstick is a fast-growing tree upto 10–12 m/ 32–40 ft tall, trunk diameter 45 cm/ 1.5 ft. Propagated from cuttings or seeds, it begins to flower within first 6 months,flowers
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You may know the name J.M Sims as the 'father of gynaecology' but do you know Anarcha Westcott? Anarcha was an enslaved 17-year-old girl that endured 30 experimental surgeries, without
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@myfathermylight Depression.1. It is so widespread.You are in such good companyI was hospitalized for severe depression at age 20(Dx: bi polar)I've spent 40+ yrs since learning its causes and "cures"It's
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The resistance of the Venezuelan people is a great wave of dignity, before the conscience of the world, the achievements sown by their revolution cannot be silenced. Informational thread
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On this day in 1991, the US launched war against Iraq. The war began with a devastating air campaign, which directly targeted civilian infrastructure. The war killed over 100,000 people
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A few thoughts on food and land use 2021. This year, and throughout the decade ahead, the world has before it a remarkable obligation and opportunity to bring about a
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100 years ago, World War I and the Spanish Flu together claimed ~100M lives.At a time when the world was in tatters, Guccio Gucci began to stitch together a business
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Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht
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As a 2nd grade teacher in a USA public school, I feel it’s important to clarify a few things I’ve seen recently concerning the myth that kids in the US
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I’m pleased to say @REACHCenterEd has released: “The Effects of School Reopenings on COVID-19 Hospitalizations.” We think it’s the 1st US study involving COVID health *outcomes* & 1st w data
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