Parental socio-economic condition, childhood infection, weaning practices, and childhood intake of food adequate in protein are known to influence the evolution of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) but this is only scantily documented for our setting. To evaluate the impact of these factors on the development of PEM and its neurological sequel in our setting, sixty-seven malnourished children a...

I. The concentration of copper in the liver of six African children suffering from marasmus has been compared with the values found for six children from the same area suffering from other diseases. 2. No significant difference was found in the concentration of Cu in the livers of children with marasmus compared with the values for the controls when the results were expressed either on a dry wh...

Kwashiorkor and marasmus constitute the two major syndromes of protein-calorie malnutrition encountered in infants and young children in many parts of the world. The clinical and metabolic characteristics of these syndromes differ significantly from one another, one difference being the fat metabolism. The increase of free fatty acids (FFA) in plasma has been accepted as the key factor causing ...