PERSONAL PRACTICE Nutritional management of cystic fibrosis Anita
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Nutritional support in cystic fibrosis has achieved a new importance. First, nutritional intervention is associated with better growthl and improvement or stabilisation of pulmonary function.23 Second, malnutrition has many adverse effects on pulmonary function including decreased ventilatory drive, impaired pulmonary muscle function, decreased exercise tolerance, and altered pulmonary immune response.4 Third, there is evidence from a comparison of two North American clinics with very similar care programmes, differing only in their approach to nutrition, that a high energy and fat diet was associated with better growth and improved survival.5 The nutritional problems in cystic fibrosis
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PERSONAL PRACTICE Nutritional management of cystic fibrosis
Nutritional support in cystic fibrosis has achieved a new importance. First, nutritional intervention is associated with better growthl and improvement or stabilisation of pulmonary function.23 Second, malnutrition has many adverse effects on pulmonary function including decreased ventilatory drive, impaired pulmonary muscle function, decreased exercise tolerance, and altered pulmonary immune r...
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