[Inflammation mediators (C reactive protein) in children with proteic-energetic malnutrition and in eutrophic children]. / Mediadores de inflamación (proteína C reactiva) en el niño con desnutrición proteico-energética y en el niño eutrófico.
Invest Clin
; 45(1): 53-62, 2004 Mar.
Article
em Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15058758
ABSTRACT
A multicentrical clinical study was designed with the purpose of measuring C-reactive protein (CRP) in normal and malnourished children, with and without infection. Blood samples were collected without anticoagulant from 109 venezuelan children, between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. The statistical analysis was carried out using the t Student and ANOVA. The values of CRP were higher (80.80 +/- 38.39 mg/L) in severe malnourished infected than non-infected malnourished children (8.17 +/- 3.06 mg/L, p < 0.001). There were statistical differences between severe malnourished infected and eutrophic infected children (p < 0.001). There was also a difference between the non infected, severely malnourished children and the rest of them, although they kept their values within a normal range. These findings indicate that the malnourished child is able to produce CRP in response to infection but in a different way that the eutrophic child. In children without infection, the CRP levels were kept within the normal range.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções Bacterianas
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Proteína C-Reativa
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Desnutrição Proteico-Calórica
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Invest Clin
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Venezuela