Dietary cysteine is used more efficiently by children with severe acute malnutrition with edema compared with those without edema.

Abstract

These findings suggest that children with edematous SAM may have a greater requirement for cysteine during early and mid-nutritional rehabilitation because they used dietary cysteine more efficiently than did their nonedematous counterparts and because the splanchnic tissues of all children with SAM have a relatively high requirement for cysteine.

This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00069134.

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Subjects

• Cysteine
• Diet
• Edema
• Female
• Growth Disorders
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant Nutrition Disorders
• Male
• Protein-Energy Malnutrition
• Weight Gain

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Authors

• Asha Badaloo
• Jean W Hsu
• Carolyn Taylor-Bryan
• Curtis Green
• Marvin Reid
• Terrence Forrester
• Farook Jahoor

Publication date

2011-12-22

Journal

Journal topics

• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.

Release reference

Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Jan;95(1):84-90

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