75 years of Kwashiorkor in Africa.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Kwashiorkor: more hypothesis testing is needed to understand the aetiology of oedema.
Epidemiology Kwashiorkor is almost never seen in the developed world. Widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and common in Southeast Asia and Central America, kwashiorkor occurs in young children living in areas with endemic food insecurity or famine; prevalence varies by geographic area, with reported levels ranging up to 6% in some chronic foodinsecure communities and occasionally to one quarter of...
متن کاملMethionine concentration in South African Bantu breast milk.
Although going under different names, the disease commonly referred to as kwashiorkor is of world-wide distribution affecting infants and young children fed on diets habitually deficient in amino-acids. According to Brock & Autret (1952), the syndrome usually includes fatty infiltration, cellular necrosis, or fibrosis of the liver. These authors have reported that in West Africa, fibrosis of th...
متن کاملDetection of early protein-calorie malnutrition (pre-kwashiorkor) in population groups.
I. The heights and weights and the serum total protein concentration and ratio of nonessential to essential amino acids (NEA: EA ratio) were determined in twenty-six Indian children, aged from 1.5 to 5 years, suffering from early protein-calorie malnutrition (prekwashiorkor children). 2. The heights and weights of the majority of the children approximated to 75-85 % of the values for normal Ind...
متن کاملAnemia in experimental protein deficiency in the rhesus monkey with special reference to iron metabolism.
NEMIA is an important manifestation of Kwashiorkor,15 a syndrome of protein malnutrition. Woodruff,5 on the basis of his studies in Africa, emphasized the difficulty of assessing the role of protein malnutrition per se in the genesis of anemia in Kwashiorkor, since the human syndrome was associated with multiple nutritional deficiencies and often complicated by intercurrent infections and paras...
متن کاملCauses of death in a rural area of South Africa: an international perspective.
The study compares the cause of death profile in a rural area of South Africa (Agincourt), with that in a rural area of West Africa (Niakhar), and in a developed country with the same life expectancy (France, 1951) in order to determine causes with high and low mortality and priorities for future health interventions. In the two African sites, causes of death were assessed by verbal autopsies, ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
- Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi
دوره 21 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009