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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 37, 930-940, Copyright © 1983 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Effects of increasing nitrogen intake on nitrogen balance and energy expenditure in nutritionally depleted adult patients receiving parenteral nutrition

SN Shaw, DH Elwyn, J Askanazi, M Iles, Y Schwarz and JM Kinney

The effects of increasing nitrogen intake were studied in 10 nutritionally depleted patients receiving total parenteral nutrition. After 1 to 2 days on 5% dextrose, the patients received, in random order, intravenous diets containing either a low (180 mg/kg . day) or high (364 mg/kg . day) nitrogen content. Equicaloric amounts of glucose and fat emulsion were given. Total energy intake averaged 33.0 kcal/kg . day corresponding to 1.31 X resting energy expenditure or 1.08 X total energy expenditure. Nitrogen and energy balances were measured daily. Concentrations of glucose, glycerol, fatty acids, triglycerides, urea, insulin and glucagon in plasma, and of beta-hydroxybutyrate in whole blood were measured during the last 2 days of each diet period. An increase in plasma urea was the only change in hormone or substrate concentrations identified. Resting energy expenditure increased approximately 10%, going from 5% dextrose to the low and from the low to the high N diet. Nitrogen balances were 0.21 and 0.61 mg N/kg . day on the low and high N diets. Nitrogen retention of 21% of the increment in intake, three times that seen in normal adult subjects, indicates that the malnourished patients in this study responded in a manner similar to growing organisms. Attainment of markedly positive N balance at, or close to, zero energy balance indicates that lean body mass can be restored without excessive energy intakes which may often be undesirable.


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