Anthropometry relationship with duodenal histologic features of children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Authors :: Jamil, Zehra
VanBuskirk, Kelley
Mweetwa, Monica
Mouksassi, Samer
Smith, Gerald
Ahmed, Tahmeed
Chandwe, Kanta
Denno, Donna M
Fahim, S Mohammad
Kelly, Paul
Mahfuz, Mustafa
Mallawaarachchi, Indika
Marie, Chelsea
Moore, Sean R
Petri, William A
Ali, S Asad
Ahmed, Kumail
Ahmed, Sheraz
Alam, Md. Ashraful
Amadi, Beatrice
Banda, Rosemary
Dars, Shareef
Das, Subhasish
Denson, Lee A.
Hossain, Md. Shabab
Hotwani, Aneeta
Iqbal, Junaid
Iqbal, Najeeha Talat
Jakhro, Sadaf
Kabir, Furqan
Kazhila, Lydia
Liu, Ta-Chiang
Mann, Barbara J.
Memon, Waheeda
Moskaluk, Christopher A
Qureshi, Abdul Khalique
Ragahavan, Shyam S
Rahman, Masudur
Rahman, Najeeb
Sadiq, Kamran
Sarker, Shafiqul Alam
Sullivan, Peter B.
Tarr, Phillip I.
Tearney, Guillermo J.
Umrani, Fayaz
Yilmaz, Omer H.
Source :: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; September 2024, Vol. 120 Issue: 1, Number 1 Supplement 1 pS65-S72, 8p
Publication Year :: 2024
Abstract: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is a precursor of growth faltering in children living in impoverished conditions who are frequently exposed to environmental toxins and enteropathogens, leading to small bowel inflammatory, malabsorptive, and permeability derangements and low-grade chronic systemic inflammation.

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