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Thiamin status in normal and malnourished children in Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2007

B. Hailemariam ,
J. P. Landman  and
Alan A. Jackson
B. Hailemariam
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
J. P. Landman
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Alan A. Jackson
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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Abstract

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1. Thiamin status has been measured using the erythrocyte transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1) assay in twenty-eight normal children and in twenty-five severely-malnourished children throughout the course of recovery.

2. Subclinical thiamin deficiency was found in 7% of the normal children and 36% of the malnourished children on admission.

3. There was no significant association between thiamin status and oedema, stunting or wasting, history of breast-feeding, pattern of weaning, age or sex.

4. Five malnourished children, who died, all had a normal thiamin status on admission; however, two developed biochemical evidence of thiamin deficiency preterminally.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 477 - 483
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1985

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