Malnutrition, gastroenteritis and trypsinogen concentration in hospitalised Aboriginal children.
J Paediatr Child Health
; 34(1): 69-73, 1998 Feb.
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OBJECTIVE: To explore relationships between malnutrition and pancreatic damage in hospitalised aboriginal children. METHODS: Immunoreactive trypsinogen (IRT) concentrations were measured in two populations of hospitalised aboriginal children in Australia: 472 children aged 0-3 years, in Alice Springs (Northern Territory); and 187 children aged 0-16 years in Mount Isa (Queensland). Correlation of whole blood IRT with height and weight z-scores, four-site skinfold thickness and upper arm circumference was sought. RESULTS: In Mount Isa, the geometric mean IRT concentration rose with decreasing weight z-score. The IRT concentration was otherwise unrelated to nutritional indices. Sixty percent of the 39 Mount Isa patients with gastroenteritis and 24.5% of the 358 Alice Springs patients with gastroenteritis had an IRT concentration in the upper quartile for their population, compared with 16% for patients with other diagnoses in both populations. CONCLUSIONS: A high IRT concentration in patients with low weight z-scores is a confounding effect of gastroenteritis, and may result from subclinical pancreatic disease in gastroenteritis.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pancreatopatias
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Tripsinogênio
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Transtornos da Nutrição Infantil
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Havaiano Nativo ou Outro Ilhéu do Pacífico
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Gastroenterite
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Paediatr Child Health
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article