Protein metabolism in chronic severe malnutrition (kwashiorkor)

From Kwashiorkor to Edematous Malnutrition.

of the children, respectively. The frequency of vitamin A deficiency in the Kabul series (11.2%) was much lower than in the Hyderabad series (32.6%). The authors attributed this to prolonged breastfeeding, which would have helped meet the children’s vitamin A requirements. Prevalence of vitamin B complex deficiency was also lower in the Kabul series (22.2%) as compared to the Hyderabad series (...

Malnutrition and the family: deprivation in kwashiorkor.

The background to social and emotional deprivation is discussed and applied to a study of kwashiorkor in East African children. A group of 107 children with kwashiorkor was compared with 111 controls. Age, sex and tribe were all found to have significances of their own: fifty of each group were therefore matched for these three factors. Ten other factors were found to be significant in the bac...

[Treatment of severe protein deficiency in children (kwashiorkor)].

Severe and prolonged underfeeding in African children: (The Kwashiorkor Syndrome of Malignant Malnutrition).

This communication falls into three parts: first there is a critical review of recent advances in knowledge of the effects of severe and prolonged underfeeding in African children, with consequent production of that syndrome of malnutrition, which has been called kwashiorkor; and secondly personal observations are offered of the frequency of this form of malnutrition and its relationship to oth...

Albumin metabolism in children with protein malnutrition.