The relationship between children's chronic anorexia with anemia and Zinc deficiency.
- Author:
Danh Thanh Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
anorexia
- MeSH:
anorexia;
child;
anemia;
zinc
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):15-19
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
132 children (72 boys and 60 girls from 3 to 48 month old age) with chronic anorexia (at least 1/2 month long) were studied descriptively, comparatively and prospectively at the Centre of Children's Nutrition in HCM city from Oct. 1997 to Aug. 1998. Clinical state, health and nutritional history, paraclinical examinations (serum Zinc level by mass-spectrograph differential pulse polarography with stripping, hematology…) were noted. Results have shown that the deficiency of Zn is the main cause of anorexia, especially in malnourished children. There is statistically no significant relation between anemia and Zn deficiency, but the severity of anorexia depends on the decrease of serum zinc level.
