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Pattern of biochemical and immune recovery in protein calorie malnutrition


M.A. Parent
W.E.K. Loening
H.M. Coovadia
P.M. Smythe

Abstract

Thirty-two Black children with protein calorie malnutrition were studied with a view to assessing the duration of derangement of biochemical and immunological factors. It was shown that the majority of biochemical parameters were back to normal within 20 days, while the return to normal of the immunological indlces was more protracted. Reference is made to the patients who died, and to the factors contributing to their deaths.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1375 (1974).

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