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Disaccharide Digestion and Maldigestion

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1996
All food carbohydrates are hydrolysed to monosaccharides before transport across the microvillus membrane. The digestion of disaccharides and some oligosaccharides is undertaken by a number of small intestinal brush border enzymes: sucrase-isomaltase, lactase phlorizinhydrolase, maltase-glycoamylase and trehalase. The distribution of the enzymes in the
E, Gudmand-Høyer, H, Skovbjerg
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Lactose Maldigestion

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 1990
A study was performed to determine whether the age‐related prevalence of lactose maldigestion is increased in healthy institutionalized children. Previous malnutrition did not exclude children from study. The control children had no prior history of malnutrition or hospital admissions for diarrhea.
D F, Wittenberg, A, Moosa
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Maldigestion Versus Malabsorption in the Elderly

Current Gastroenterology Reports, 2020
To evaluate recently published information about the frequency of maldigestion and malabsorption in older individuals, likely diagnoses causing these problems, and the diagnostic scheme when these diagnoses are being considered.Although the prevalence of malnourishment and frank malnutrition may be increasing among older adults admitted to the hospital,
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