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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 79, No. 5, 787-794, May 2004
© 2004 American Society for Clinical Nutrition

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATION

Effect of feeding malnourished patients for 1 mo on mitochondrial complex I activity and nutritional assessment measurements1,2,3

Francoise Briet, Clare Twomey and Khursheed N Jeejeebhoy

1 From the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto.

Background: We showed previously that the activity of complex I (the first enzyme of the electron transport chain) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells decreases with malnutrition and increases to a subnormal value after 1 wk of refeeding, but the traditional markers of nutritional status do not do so.

Objective: The aim of this study was to ascertain whether a period of nutritional intervention longer than 1 wk would normalize complex I activity and traditional markers of nutritional status.

Design: Fifteen malnourished patients (7 women and 8 men) with >= 10% body weight loss over the previous 6 mo were studied on the day of their admission to hospital and 7, 14 and 30 d after the beginning of nutritional support. Complex I activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, weight, height, body composition, body water compartments, dietary intake, and serum albumin concentrations were measured on each occasion. The results before and during nutritional intervention were compared with values obtained in 30 healthy volunteers (17 women and 13 men).

Results: Complex I activity increased significantly after the first week of refeeding (P < 0.001) and reached a normal value after 1 mo of nutritional supplementation. Among the classic markers of nutritional status, only the ratio of extracellular water to intracellular water tended to decrease over the refeeding period.

Conclusion: Complex I activity increases rapidly and is normalized by refeeding at a time when other markers of nutritional status do not change significantly.

Key Words: Malnutrition • refeeding • peripheral blood mononuclear cells • mitochondria • complex I






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