Precision nutrition — review of methods for point-of-care assessment of nutritional status

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2017, Pages 103-108

  Srinivasan, Balaji ^a,b   Lee, Seoho ^c   Erickson, David ^a,b,c   Mehta, Saurabh ^a,b  

^a Institute for Nutritional Sciences Global Health   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

DESIGN CHALLENGES; GLOBAL POPULATION; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; POINT OF CARE; POINT OF CARE DIAGNOSTIC; SCALE-UP;

NUTRITION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

COMPUTER; DATA PROCESSING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LAB ON A CHIP; MALNUTRITION; MICROFLUIDICS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRECISION NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SMARTPHONE; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM;

HUMANS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85007427113     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.12.001     Document Type: Review

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