Nutritional basis of growth failure in children and adolescents with Crohn's disease.
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Neither endocrine dysfunction nor malabsorption accounted for the severe growth failure in children with Crohn's disease.About:
This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1979-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 196 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Parenteral nutrition & Lean body mass.read more
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Nutrition Support in Clinical Practice: Review of Published Data and Recommendations for Future Research Directions
Samuel Klein,John Kinney,Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy,David H. Alpers,Marc K. Hellerstein,Michael Murray,Patrick Twomey +6 more
TL;DR: An advisory committee was convened to perform a critical review of the current medical literature evaluating the clinical use of nutrition support and to identify the issues that deserve further investigation.
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Serum concentrations of tumour necrosis factor alpha in childhood chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
TL;DR: Production of TNF alpha may be associated with growth failure in relapse of colonic inflammatory bowel disease and it may diminish pituitary growth hormone release.
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Specificities of inflammatory bowel disease in childhood.
TL;DR: Observations on the familiality of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suggest that genetic susceptibility is particularly important to disease pathogenesis in young patients.
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Growth failure in children with inflammatory bowel disease: a prospective study.
Kathleen J. Motil,Kathleen J. Motil,Richard J. Grand,Lee Davis-Kraft,Laura L. Ferlic,E. O'Brian Smith +5 more
TL;DR: In a unique group of children, growth failure is an early, "prepatterned" manifestation of IBD, and the inflammatory process, rather than steroid use, has a predominant influence on the development of growth faltering.
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