Abstract
Many of the nutritional disorders of infants and children such as rickets, scurvey, marasmus and kwashiorkor have been recognized by their clinical and laboratory findings. Less well appreciated are the abnormalities in growth due to major disturbances in macronutrient intake, absorption and/or utilization that result in failure-to-thrive at one end of the spectrum or obesity at the other end. The origins of these growth abnormalities related to nutrition are frequently manifest in-utero or in infancy and may be corrected by appropriate diagnosis and intervention. The purpose of this article is to highlight some clinical examples of failure-to-thrive and to contrast these with excessive growth and obesity.
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Hill, D.E. (1980). Clinical Correlates in Nutritional Disease. In: Brewster, M.A., Naito, H.K. (eds) Nutritional Elements and Clinical Biochemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3168-1_1
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