Nutrition Reviews

Professor, Robert E. HodgesM. D. Associate; Bean, William B.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01694.xpmid: 14402234

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01695.xpmid: N/A

The vascular lesions resulting from remodelling or repair of the arterial walls and factors controlling local fibrin deposits are involved in degenerative arterial diseases.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01696.xpmid: N/A

Patients with anorexia nervosa show a low serum potassium level (especially with excessive weight loss) accompanied by reduced levels of sodium and chloride and elevated levels of carbon dioxide. High intakes of potassium overcome these abnormalities.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01697.xpmid: 13857976

A syndrome of magnesium deficiency probably can be defined in certain patients with alcoholism or electrolyte imbalance. This consists of sudden psychoses, neuromuscular hyperirritability and electrocardiographic changes.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01698.xpmid: 13857977

Metabolic rates in malnourished infants may be increased per unit of weight because of fat losses. Severe starvation will depress metabolic rate in infants as well as in adults.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01699.xpmid: 13857947

The absorption of supraphysiologic doses of vitamin B12 by normal subjects is enhanced by the administration of D‐sorbitol, whereas absorption of physiologic doses by pernicious anemia patients is unaffected.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01700.xpmid: 13857979

Cor pulmonale is more common in India than in the United States while the reverse is true for coronary atherosclerosis. Life expectancy in the United States is more than double that of India.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01701.xpmid: 13857980

Kidney changes, including lowered concentrations of fatty acid oxidase, may be of sufficient importance to account for many of the effects observed in fluorotic animals.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01702.xpmid: 13857981

Chemical analysis of skin, injured by croton oil injections, for nitrogen, hexosamine and hydroxyproline were correlated with the histological changes in the same tissue.

doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1960.tb01703.xpmid: 13857982

Adult dogs maintained in a controlled environment consumed very constant amounts of water each day as long as they were in weight equilibrium. The water intake was directly proportional to the quantity of food and/or salt consumed.