Nutritional assessment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Dev Med Child Neurol
; 35(12): 1074-82, 1993 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8253288
ABSTRACT
A specific-weight chart and simple clinical tools are sufficient to obtain an accurate diagnosis of undernutrition or obesity among patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The authors collected weight-for-age measures from a sample of 252 boys and anthropometric data from 109 of those boys with DMD. The data confirm the accuracy of the DMD ideal-weight chart previously proposed by Griffiths and Edwards (1988). Obesity may occur from the age of seven years; its prevalence seems to reach 54 per cent by the age of 13 years. Undernutrition occurs after the age of 14 years, involving 54 per cent of boys at about 18 years of age. Obese boys show a centralized body-fat distribution, in agreement with other obese populations.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Anthropometry
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Muscular Dystrophies
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Nutrition Disorders
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Dev Med Child Neurol
Year:
1993
Document type:
Article