Gilberto Bastidas¹*, Daniel Bastidas²

¹Department of Public Health and Institute of Medical and Biotechnology Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Carabobo, Venezuela
²Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Carabobo, Venezuela

*Corresponding Author: Gilberto Bastidas, Department of Public Health and Institute of Medical and Biotechnology Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Carabobo, Venezuela.

Received: October 09, 2023; Published: October 26, 2023

Abstract

Nutritional status is considered an important risk factor and as a prognostic factor for infectious diseases, given its close relationship with the immune response against them, immersed in a bidirectional pattern of synergistic interaction, where a worse nutritional status contributes negatively to development and evolution of infections, and where infections cause a worsening of nutritional status. In this sense, it is noted that nutritional status can influence morbidity and mortality due to diarrhea and respiratory diseases, especially in children under 5 years of age; however, this does not seem to be the case for some parasitic diseases such as malaria.

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Citation

Citation: Gilberto Bastidas, Daniel Bastidas. “Nutritional Disorder in Malaria Infection. Paper to be Clarified".Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 7.11 (2023): 38-39.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Gilberto Bastidas, Daniel Bastidas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.