Malnutrition, with its 2 constituents of protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, continues to be a major health burden in developing countries. It is globally the most important risk factor for illness and death, with hundreds of millions of pregnant women and young children particularly affected. Apart from marasmus and kwashiorkor (the 2 forms of protein- energy malnutriti...

The malnutrition in early life is associated with metabolic changes and cardiovascular impairment in adulthood. Deficient protein intake-mediated hypertension has been observed in clinical and experimental studies. In rats, protein malnutrition also increases the blood pressure and enhances heart rate and sympathetic activity. In this review, we discuss the effects of post-weaning protein malnu...

This article is the introduction to our formal proceedings of the symposium titled ‘‘Protein Quality, Growth and Malnutrition: Latest Scientific Findings and the Role of Dairy in Food Aid,’’ held during the Experimental Biology 2015 annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

term 'familial' does not seem to apply to such a situation. While Tandler's faulty recanalization concept may be of lesser importance in explaining atresias beyond the duodenum (where no 'solid stage' has been satisfactorily demonstrated), it may well apply to duodenal atresias. This is supported by the observation that it may be accompanied by other errors of growth, notably Down's syndrome (B...

Background: Malnutrition is an important factor in the survival of critically ill patients. The purpose of the present study was to assess the nutritional status of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) on the days of admission and discharge via a detailed nutritional assessment. Methods: Totally, 125 patients were followed up from admission to discharge at 8ICUs in Shiraz, Iran. The patien...

we encountered a patient with methylmalonic aciduria associated with skin lesions resembling acrodermatitis enteropathica. this child was being fed with a low-protein diet when the skin disorder developed. a deficiency in plasma levels isoleucine, was confirmed. supplementation of a high-caloric, protein-rich diet led to a prompt improvement of skin lesions. we assume that in our patient the sk...

IDENTIFYING MALNUTRITION The high incidence of malnutrition in the hospital setting was first described in the 1974 publication, “The Skeleton in the Hospital Closet” (1). Over time, the presence of malnutrition has been consistently correlated with increased length of stay, clinical deterioration, increased use of hospital resources, and increased risk of complications (2). Because of the dele...

Serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (G-OT), glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (G-PT), and isocitric dehydrogenase (ICD) have been estimated in six groups of subjects, namely, normal British adults, normal Nigerian adults, undernourished Nigerian adults and children, Nigerian children with florid protein malnutrition (kwashiorkor), and cases of protein malnutrition after treatment. The normal ran...

The activity of important glycolytic enzymes (hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, aldolase, phosphohexoseisomerase, pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase) and glutaminolytic enzymes (phosphate-dependent glutaminase) was determined in the thymus and mesenteric lymph nodes of Wistar rats submitted to protein malnutrition (6% protein in the diet rather than 20%) from conception to 12 weeks after ...