Übersetzung für 'kwashiorkor disease' von Englisch nach Deutsch

kwashiorkor disease

Kwashiorkor-Erkrankung {f} [Eiweißunterernährung]med.

• Kwashiorkor is a kind of protein-energy malnutrition that is caused by repeated infections, specifically diarrheal disease.
• In 1965, Williams was awarded the James Spence Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health for the discovery of Kwashiorkor, a nutritional disease, in Accra and for recognising malnutrition was more likely to be caused by lack of nutritional knowledge rather than poverty.
• Recent studies have attempted to pinpoint a relationship between kwashiorkor and high levels of aflatoxins.
• More typical is malnutrition-associated hypoalbuminemia in the elderly, who appear thin and frail but not with the rounded abdomen and edema seen in Kwashiorkor.
• In the 1940s kwashiorkor was a yet ill-defined nutritional disorder in Africa.

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