Severe malnutrition may adversely affect digestive function, and result in the difficulties frequently encountered when attempting to re-feef such patients. To investigate the effects of undernutrition, and subsequent re-feeding, on digestive function in human patients, severely malnourished patients were studies before, and after a period of intensive nutritional support.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/3486 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Winter, Trevor Anthony |
| Contributors | Marks, IN (Solly) |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medicine |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, Doctoral, PhD |
| Format | application/pdf |
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