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Meaning of "kwashiorkor"

kwashiorkor (adjective) - a term used to describe a severe form of malnutrition, usually seen in children in developing countries, characterized by a distended belly and other symptoms of nutritional deficiency
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  • A form of malnutrition, found in children, caused by dietary insufficiency of protein in combination with a high-carbohydrate diet.

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Kwashiorkor is mainly caused by inadequate protein intake.
A chronic lack of protein in the diet leads to kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor is caused due to the deficiency of proteins.
Comparison of milk and maize based diets in kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor and marasmus differ in laboratory findings.
The name for protein deficiency disease is kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor is a serious form of malnutrition caused by a lack of protein.
A diet made up mainly of carbohydrates can cause kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor cases occur in areas of famine or poor food supply.
The bloated stomach represents a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor is a severe protein deficiency.
Another condition that children can develop is called kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor is a disease of children exclusively.
Merry offers interesting historical insights into kwashiorkor syndrome.
Kwashiorkor and marasmus are childhood disorders caused by lack of dietary protein.

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Protein deficiency plays a part in the disease known as kwashiorkor.
This phenomenon causes a high rate of kwashiorkor type malnutrition in children.
Kwashiorkor patients is high.
Similar to kwashiorkor symptoms.
I remember a mother in the malnutrition ward whose son had kwashiorkor.
And mice that get the kwashiorkor community transplanted into them.
Because the immune system of the child with kwashiorkor is seriously.
Kwashiorkor may occur and cause permanent damage to the neurological system.
From the healthy identical twins of the kwashiorkor children do fine.
The child with kwashiorkor has all the following conditions except.
He designed meals using local vegetables to fight against the scourge of kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor is a disease.
Stomach distension is a form of malnutrition from severe protein deficiency called kwashiorkor.
The incidence of kwashiorkor has been reported to be high in yam consuming areas.
The malnutrition is also visibly evident in town scores of cases of marasmus and kwashiorkor.
Here goitre is endemic and kwashiorkor has been spreading at lightning pace in recent years.
This phenomenon causes in the child population a high rate of kwashiorkor type malnutrition.
Kwashiorkor is generally present in malnourished children or in adults who have undergone bariatric interventions.
Malnutrition related conditions like kwashiorkor and marasmus are also common causes of death.
Chronic kwashiorkor can leave a child with permanent mental and physical disabilities.
Lipid kinetic differences between children with kwashiorkor and those with marasmus.
Ii Kwashiorkor may occur without severe wasting.
Children with features of both nutritional marasmus and kwashiorkor are diagnosed as having marasmic kwashiorkor.
I know a handful of children that were killed by Kwashiorkor.
What is Kwashiorkor.
The term for protein deficiency is called Kwashiorkor.
Kwashiorkor is most common in areas where there is,.
Protein deficiency can be seen as Kwashiorkor in children.
Kwashiorkor is a severe form of malnutrition, caused by a deficiency in dietary protein.
Treatment procedures were similar for Marasmus and kwashiorkor.
Pathological symptoms of the disease kwashiorkor ( protein deficiency ) had begun to appear.
The Nigerian Military suffering from kwashiorkor.
Two forms of PEM are kwashiorkor and marasmus, and they commonly coexist.
This will underestimate prevalence only slightly because most kwashiorkor cases will have low MUAC.
Kwashiorkor ( malnutrition from inadequate protein intake ).

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