Prenatal Factors Contribute to the Emergence of Kwashiorkor or Marasmus in Severe Undernutrition: Evidence for the Predictive Adaptation Model

BACKGROUND: Severe acute malnutrition in childhood manifests as oedematous (kwashiorkor, marasmic kwashiorkor) and non-oedematous (marasmus) syndromes with very different prognoses. Kwashiorkor differs from marasmus in the patterns of protein, amino acid and lipid metabolism when patients are acutel...

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Autores principales: Forrester, Terrence E., Badaloo, Asha V., Boyne, Michael S., Osmond, Clive, Thompson, Debbie, Green, Curtis, Taylor-Bryan, Carolyn, Barnett, Alan, Soares-Wynter, Suzanne, Hanson, Mark A., Beedle, Alan S., Gluckman, Peter D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035907

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