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...

I . Studies were made of iron absorption in eighty-five infants who were suffering from protein-calorie deficiency (kwashiorkor and marasmus) and in eight infants who were suffering from Fe-deficiency anaemia : twenty-one healthy infants were used as control subjects. Factors affecting absorption concentration of serum total protein and its fractions; serum Fe; transferrin (as indicated by tota...

During the normal growth and development of man and animals the bones grow in length and width and undergo progressive changes in their architecture, a process known as maturation. These normal processes are governed by numerous and complex forces but one of them, the plane of nutrition during the growing period, is of major importance. Undernourished children are small in stature and have bone...

There are few reports of alkaline phosphatase activity in the serum of children suffering from kwashiorkor. The values quoted are somewhat conflicting: Waterlow (1948) found an average level of 19.7 .King-Armstrong units in eight cases of "fatty liver disease " in Jamaica, and Jaya-sekera, de Mel, and Cullumbine (1951) reported an average value of 15.8 units in 40 children with kwashiorkor inve...