The pre-dietary rehabilitation levels of acute phase proteins (APP) namely, alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT), orosomucoid (ORO), haptoglobin (HAP), fibrinogen (FIB) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in the plasma of Sudanese children with severe protein energy malnutrition (PEM) were compared with those of normal controls, and with the levels after dietary rehabilitation. Eighty one children were included ...

I . In malnourished, compared with recovered children, fasting blood glucose concentrations were low and there was impaired peripheral glycolysis as shown by a failure of blood lactate to rise after glucose was injected intravenously. 2. Homogenates of muscle biopsies from malnourished and recovered children produced equal amounts of lactate when incubated anaerobically with various substrates,...

Twenty three children with recurrent episodes of diarrhea and chronic malnutrition were studied for pancreatic duct function. Those children were subjected to pancreatic stimulation with pancreozymin and secretin. Grade I malnourished children, as per Gomez classification, formed the control group. The water output from pancreas increased in malnourished children (p < 0.05). It correlated signi...

James, W. P. T. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 531. Comparison of three methods used in assessment of carbohydrate absorption in malnourished children. The results of oral lactose and sucrose tolerance tests were compared with jejunal disaccharidase activities and the absorption rates of lactose and sucrose from a perfused segment of jejunum in 8 malnourished children before and ...

Background: WHO AnthroPlus is a software which helps us to assess the nutritional status of school-age children and adolescents based on the new WHO Growth Reference 2007. Global Positioning System (GPS) with google earth is an innovative approach to map the spatial distribution of morbidities at the field level. The present study was undertaken to assess the nutritional status of school age ch...

Because low tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) production has been reported in malnourished children, in contrast with high production of TNF-alpha in experimental protein-energy malnutrition, we reevaluated the production of TNF-alpha in whole blood cultures from children with primary malnutrition free from infection, and in healthy sex- and age-matched controls. Mononuclear cells in bloo...

Home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for the treatment of malnutrition has better outcomes in the research setting than standard therapy. This study examined outcomes of malnourished children aged 6-60 months enrolled in operational home-based therapy with RUTF. Children enrolled in 12 rural centres in southern Malawi were diagnosed with moderate or severe malnutrition a...