Body Composition in Severe Infantile Malnutrition*
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Body Composition in Severe Infantile Malnutrition.
In Jamaica infantile malnutrition is most serious among children about 1 year old. The clinical picture may be of the marasmic or the kwashiorkor type, and intermediate forms often occur (1). Waterlow (2) suggested that the essential result of malnutrition was to produce protein depletion in the child, and many attempts have been made to measure the extent of this depletion. Chemical analysis o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci105155