Compact Bone Deficiency in Protein-Calorie Malnutrition
- 25 September 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 145 (3639), 1444-1445
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.145.3639.1444
Abstract
Children hospitalized for acute protein-calorie malnutrition in Guatemala City were not delayed in ossification status as compared with Guatemalan Indian children on their customary low-protein diets, but were markedly and often dramatically deficient in cortical bone.Keywords
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