Journal article

Publication year: 1995

Pages: 516-520

Journal: Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child

Volume number: 84

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 0803-5253

eISSN: 1651-2227

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1995.tb13685.x

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The fatty acid composition of plasma cholesterol esters, plasma phospholipids, erythrocyte phosphatidylcholine and erythrocyte phosphatidylethanolamine was investigated in severely malnourished Nigerian children with kwashiorkor (n = 12) and marasmus (n = 32). Normally nourished children from the same area (n = 23) served as controls. The malnourished children showed a significant reduction of highly polyunsaturated fatty acids in cholesterol esters, phospholipids and phosphatidylcholine. No differences between the groups were found in erythrocyte phosphatidylethanolamine. Children with kwashiorkor had lower levels of linoleic acid metabolites and docosahexaenoic acid than marasmic children. The results suggest that the kwashiorkor syndrome is associated with impaired desaturation and elongation of PUFA and/or increased lipid peroxidation.

Harvard Citation style: Leichsenring, M., Sütterlin, N., Less, S., Bäumann, K., Anninos, A. and Becker, K. (1995) Polyunsaturated fatty acids in erythrocyte and plasma lipids of children with severe protein-energy malnutrition, Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child, 84(5), pp. 516-520. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1995.tb13685.x

APA Citation style: Leichsenring, M., Sütterlin, N., Less, S., Bäumann, K., Anninos, A., & Becker, K. (1995). Polyunsaturated fatty acids in erythrocyte and plasma lipids of children with severe protein-energy malnutrition. Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child. 84(5), 516-520. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1995.tb13685.x