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Identification of risk factors for malnutrition: Is there some evidence for predisposition?
Author(s) -
Franco Leopoldo Vega
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(1998)78:11+<14::aid-ijc5>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - malnutrition , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , identification (biology) , risk factor , leptin , genetic predisposition , medicine , environmental health , biology , genetics , gene , obesity , pathology , ecology
Reviewed are reports on factors, identified by risk analysis, involved in the genesis of primary malnutrition in children. Data are compared with the sequence of factors in a flow diagram, based on the natural history of malnutrition, proposed 3 decades ago. Susceptibility to malnutrition is analyzed in light of observations related to inheritance, the ob gene and leptin. Int. J. Cancer Supplement 11:14–16, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.