- Medical Nutrition Therapy for Anaemia: Iron – related blood disorders – Iron deficiency anaemia; Hemochromatosis; Iron toxicity. Megaloblastic Anaemias – Pernicious and other Vitamin B12 deficiency anaemias; Folic acid deficiency anaemia. Other Nutritional Anaemias – Copper deficiency anaemia; Anaemia of protein energy malnutrition; Sideroblastic(pyridoxine-responsive) anaemia. Non-nutritional Anaemias – Sports anaemia (hypochromic microcytic transient anaemia); Anaemia of pregnancy; Anaemia of inflammation, infection or malignancy; Sickle cell anaemia; Thalassemias
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for gastrointestinal disorders – Disorders of the oesophagus; Disorders of the stomach; Common Intestinal problems; Diseases of the small intestine; Intestinal Brush-Border Enzyme deficiencies; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases; Disorders of the large intestine.
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for pancreatic and liver disorders – Physiology and functions of the liver; Laboratory assessment of liver function; Diseases of the liver; Physiology and functions of the gall bladder; Diseases of the gall bladder; Physiology and functions of the exocrine pancreas
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for cardiovascular disorders – Prevalence and incidence; Pathophysiology and etiology; Atherosclerosis; Dietary lipids and coronary heart disease; Plasma lipoproteins; Lipoprotein metabolism; Dietary factors and coronary heart disease; Diet and hypertension; Diet and stroke; Diet and peripheral vascular disease; Diet and chronic heart failure; Micronutrients and cardiovascular disease
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for pulmonary disorders – Relationships between nutrition and the pulmonary system; Overview of medical nutrition therapy in pulmonary disease; Aspiration; Asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cystic fibrosis; Lung cancer; Pneumonia; Respiratory failure; Tuberculosis
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for renal disorders: Physiology and function of the kidneys; Renal disease; Glomerular diseases; Diseases of the tubules and interstitium; Progressive nature of renal disease; End-stage renal disease; Nephrolithiasis
22 - Medical Nutrition Therapy for endocrine disorders – Pathophysiology, diagnostic and screening criteria, management of diabetes mellitus, diabetes and age-related issues, implementing nutrition, self-management, acute complications, long-term complications, preventing diabetes, hypoglycemia of non-diabetic origin
- Nutritional care for weight management: body weight components, regulation of body weight; weight management throughout life; weight imbalance: overweight and obesity; management of obesity in adults; common problems encountered in obesity management; weight management in children; weight imbalance: excessive leanness.
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for febrile and surgical conditions: Fevers of short duration, chronic fevers and infections, pre-operative and post-operative nutrition
- Nutritional aspects of disease affecting the skeleton – Overview of mineral ion homeostasis and bone metabolism; age-appropriate biochemical reference ranges; pharmaceutical agents commonly used in bone disease; rickets/osteomalacia; mineral ion homeostasis in preterm infants; corticosteroid-induced bone disease; osteoporosis associated with chronic disease; anorexia nervosa; senile osteoporosis
- Medical Nutrition therapy for metabolic disorders – Newborn screening; goals of medical nutrition therapy; disorders of amino acid metabolism; disorders of organic acid metabolism; disorders of urea cycle metabolism; disorders of carbohydrate metabolism; glycogen storage diseases; disorders of fatty acid oxidation; role of nutritionist in medical nutrition therapy for metabolic disorders
- Medical Nutrition Therapy for neurological disorders: Neurologic disease classification, nervous system wiring and leisons, medical nutrition therapy, problems with procurement of food, nutritional deficiencies or excesses
