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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 7, 161-165, Copyright © 1959 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.

Prognostic Criteria of Severe Protein Malnutrition

E. KAHN M.D., M.R.C.P.E.1

1 From the Baragwanath Hospital and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Observations on 100 children with manifestations of severe protein malnutrition show that a fatal outcome is more likely in the presence of one or more of the following factors: (1) advanced emaciation, in this instance a body weight 50 per cent or more below average; (2) acute nutritional dermatosis; (3) clinically detectable dehydration, which in the patients in this series was often associated with markedly lowered serum sodium and potassium levels; (4) marked enlargement of the liver; and (5) hypothermia.






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