(1) Patients were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases.
(2) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
(3) Malnutrition and dehydration are the immediate consequences of diarrheal diseases.
(4) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(5) The interaction between malnutrition and exposure to a mucosal damaging agent, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), was examined by monitoring the small-intestinal changes in weanling rats.
(6) The number of splenic anti-TNP direct plaque-forming cells (PFCs) was decreased by malnutrition when expressed on a per spleen basis.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) It is concluded that malnutrition is a strong predictor of ALRI-related death in the pre-school child.
(9) The conclusions were: the percentage of patients with malnutrition prior to surgery is large enough to justify a routine PRNA; TPN decreases morbidity and mortality in patients with previous good nutritional state but not in those with malnutrition; undernourished patients have a very high rate of complications and surgery should be delayed until a acceptable state of nutrition is achieved.
(10) Anergy is a crude measure of host resistance which may be due to malnutrition, but is probably more often due to inappropriate host responses to surgery and injury.
(11) There are a number of observations which suggest that malnutrition and decreasing pulmonary function are parallel phenomena in chronic lung disease.
(12) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
(13) The hypochromia of protein-calorie malnutrition was not included in the study, but its importance in relation to coincident tuberculosis is noted.
(14) 4) this report is the 1st to document virus particles in fecal specimens from Indonesian children, and suggests that viruses may be important etiological agents in diarrheal diseases in Indonesia, where malnutrition and diarrhea are important health problems.
(15) Malnutrition might contribute to the development of the diseases, which were improved by anti-tuberculosis therapy and hyperalimentation therapy.
(16) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(17) Hypocalcemia in seven patients (41%) had a multifactorial basis: hyperphosphaturia, septicaemia, malnutrition and cytotoxic drugs were among the probable causes.
(18) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
(19) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
(20) Cancer patients have the highest incidence of protein-calorie malnutrition seen in hospitalized patients, with significant malnutrition occurring in more than 30% of cancer patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal procedures.
Marasmus
Definition:
(n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifteen had a clinical diagnosis of kwashiorkor, 36 were diagnosed with marasmus, and 18 were controls.
(2) We conclude that malnourished children with marasmus have a disordered early phase of gastric emptying of a liquid meal, but the abnormality is reversible following recovery of nutritional status.
(3) Plasma growth hormone (GH) levels were raised in kwashiorkor but were in the normal range in marasmus.
(4) It was inferred that (a) tyrosyluria in marasmus is due to the reduced activity of the hepatic enzyme 4-hydroxyphenyl pyruvate: oxygen oxidoreductase (hydroxylating, decarboxylating) (PHPAA-oxidase; EC 1.13.11.27) due to the deficiency of ascorbic acid and (b) high excretion of PHPAA is related to age and nutrition of the child and is unaffected by the administration of ascorbic acid.
(5) There was a tendency for considerably reduced acid phosphatase activity in all clinical groups (kwashiorkor, marasmic kwashiorkor and marasmus) of growth-retarded infants.
(6) The mean concentration of serum albumin was similar for children from the 'under-nourished' group and from the group with marasmus, but was significantly reduced in those with kwashiorkor.
(7) Children suffering from kwashiorkor, combined protein-calorie malnutrition or marasmus were studied before and after renutrition.
(8) Isolation rates of enteric agents (Campylobacter, Shigella, Salmonella, Rotavirus) for the 3 groups were not significantly different; however E. coli was isolated with a higher frequency from children who had diarrhea with marasmus.
(9) Developing countries, where scarcity of resources is a daily reality, need uniformly efficient selection procedures in order to tackle their very common problem: marasmus.
(10) The extent of depression in bone turnover was basically the same between children with marasmus, marasmic-kwashiorkor, or kwashiorkor.
(11) This study suggests that patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis require additional nutritional therapy to maintain and improve their nutrition parameters, especially those related to marasmus; and that Hepatic Aid is well tolerated for this purpose.
(12) It improved iron absorption in acute glomerulonephritis and schistosoma haematobium but not in kwashiorkor, marasmus and nephrotic cases.
(13) Acute respiratory infections, malaria, and chronic diarrhea with marasmus are shown to be the major causes of death after the first month of life.
(14) Marasmus and diarrheal disease have come to predominate in the 1st year of life, and mothers who try to bottle feed their infants can only afford inadequate amounts of formula and have very low levels of environmental home hygiene.
(15) The consumption of legumes and oil seeds ward off kwashiorkor and marasmus, but in countries with traditional food practices they are not consumed in adequate amounts.
(16) In marasmus, glycoside-sensitive sodium efflux was reduced compared to recovered values.
(17) The increase in serum ribonuclease was marked in marasmus and marasmic kwashiorkor.
(18) In the marasmus group, we found a positive correlation between cortisol and AST, ALT and Ca(T) and a negative correlation between cortisol and ALP.
(19) Eleven plasma biochemical parameters were estimated in a total of 28 children with protein-energy malnutrition (PEM): 7 children each category of marasmus, kwashiorkor, marasmic-kwashiorkor and undernutrition with ages between 8 and 48 months.
(20) The numbers of patients admitted to the Public Health Service Indian Hospital, in Tuba City, Arizona, with deficits in weight for their chronological ages, marasmus, and kwashiorkor were compared during two 5-year-periods, 1963 to 1967 and 1969 to 1973.