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- Title
Selenium status, kwashiorkor and congestive heart failure.
- Authors
Manary, M J; MacPherson, G D; McArdle, F; Jackson, M J; Hart, C A
- Abstract
Selenium deficiency is associated with congestive heart failure (CHF) in geographic areas where dietary selenium intake is low and in individuals receiving total parenteral nutrition. Among 66 children with kwashiorkor (including marasmic-kwashiorkor), those who developed CHF had lower serum selenium concentrations than those who did not (32.9 ± 8.3 vs 41.1 ± 11.9 µg/L, mean ± SD, p = 0.03). This association was independent of serum albumin and selenium status was not associated with severity of symptoms, anthropometric indices or HIV infection.
- Subjects
VITAMIN deficiency; CONGESTIVE heart failure; PATIENTS
- Publication
Acta Paediatrica, 2001, Vol 90, Issue 8, p950
- ISSN
0803-5253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1651-2227.2001.tb02464.x