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Perceptions, Causes and Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition, Mbuji-Mayi, Kasai-Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]
Matern Child NutrThis study reveals that the causes and treatment of SAM are influenced by local community perceptions. The results underline the importance of combining different forms of care to improve access to treatment, and of building on existing community networks of traditional healers, religious groups and women's groups to prevent undernutrition.
Alendi JN +10 more
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Oedema in kwashiorkor is caused by hypoalbuminaemia
Paediatrics and International Child Health, 2015 It has been argued that the oedema of kwashiorkor is not caused by hypoalbuminaemia because the oedema disappears with dietary treatment before the plasma albumin concentration rises.
Malcolm G. Coulthard
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Scientific Reports, 2019 Kwashiorkor and marasmus are considered to be two different clinical diseases resulting from severe malnutrition, but this distinction has been questioned.
Thi-Phuong-Thao Pham +10 more
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Bone growth and sexual dimorphism at birth in intrauterine-growth-retarded rats [PDF]
, 2010 This paper addresses the effect of a reduction of uterine blood flow (RUB) on postcranial bone growth in rats. The objectives were: (1) to discover and characterize the changes evoked by growth retardation through a reduction in placental blood flow, (2)
Castro, Luis Eduardo +6 more
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Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 2019 Summary Throughout the twentieth century it was widely assumed that African diets were grossly deficient in protein, that childhood protein deficiency was a natural result of this generalised diet and that a relative lack of meat and milk went some way ...
John Nott
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Prognostic indicators of early and late death in children admitted to district hospital in Kenya: cohort study [PDF]
, 2003 OBJECTIVES: To identify clinical indicators of immediate, early, and late mortality in children at admission to a sub-Saharan district hospital and to develop prognostic scores. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.
Berkley, JA +8 more
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Nutrients, 2018 Hepatic steatosis is a hallmark feature of kwashiorkor malnutrition. However, the pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis in kwashiorkor is uncertain. Our objective was to develop a mouse model of childhood undernutrition in order to test the hypothesis that ...
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Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2018 Background: Kwashiorkor is a major classification of severe acute malnutrition whose etiology remains elusive. It is estimated to affect hundreds of thousands of children annually, but no accurate global prevalence figures are available.
Merry Fitzpatrick +4 more
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new microbes and new infections, 2017 Using the culturomics strategy, a wide range of anaerobic bacteria was discovered including Anaeromassilibacillus senegalensis strain mt9T (= CSUR P1511 = DSM 102954), isolated from the gut microbiota of a 1-year-old Senegalese patient with kwashiorkor ...
E. Guilhot +12 more
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