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The role of nutritional impairment in promoting respiratory infection has been recognized for many years, but only recently have some of the mechanisms of malnutrition-induced respiratory host defense failure been clarified. Malnutrition has multiple influences on the lung’s ability to resist invading pathogens and these alterations in lung defenses lead to three clinical consequences: an increased incidence of lung infections, a more virulent and prolonged bout of infection than is usually seen, and a more subtle clinical presentation of pneumonia than is typical of well-nourished individuals.10
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Niederman, M.S. (1992). Malnutrition and Lung Host Defenses: Implications for the Pathogenesis and Prevention of Pneumonia. In: Ferranti, R.D., Rampulla, C., Fracchia, C., Ambrosino, N. (eds) Nutrition and Ventilatory Function. Current Topics in Rehabilitation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3840-2_9
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