Prenatal factors contribute to the emergence of kwashiorkor or marasmus in severe undernutrition: evidence for the predictive adaptation model.

Prenatal factors contribute to the emergence of kwashiorkor or marasmus in severe undernutrition: evidence for the predictive adaptation model.

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 acutely ill as wel...

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Main Authors: Terrence E Forrester, Asha V Badaloo, Michael S Boyne, Clive Osmond, Debbie Thompson, Curtis Green, Carolyn Taylor-Bryan, Alan Barnett, Suzanne Soares-Wynter, Mark A Hanson, Alan S Beedle, Peter D Gluckman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3340401?pdf=render

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