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Body Composition in Severe Infantile Malnutrition.
In Jamaica infantile malnutrition is most serious among children about 1 year old. The clinical picture may be of the marasmic or the kwashiorkor type, and intermediate forms often occur (1). Waterlow (2) suggested that the essential result of malnutrition was to produce protein depletion in the child, and many attempts have been made to measure the extent of this depletion. Chemical analysis o...
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متن کاملImmunological aspects of infantile protein-calorie malnutrition.
Children with protein calorie malnutrition have impaired immune functions. Immunoglobulin levels are low in children with severe protein deprivation, but are not affected in moderate or borderline protein malnutrition. Specific antibody response is either normal or reduced depending on the antigen used. Involution of the thymus dependent lymphatic system and severe impairment of the cell-mediat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Diseases of Children
سال: 1921
ISSN: 0096-8994
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1921.04120040033003