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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the food intake of families at the "El Chañar" aboriginal mission and make an anthropometric evaluation of the children between 6 and 14. DESIGN: This crossover and descriptive study covered two units of analysis. SETTING: It was carried out at the "El Chañar" aboriginal community. PARTICIPANTS: All the mission families and all children between 6 and 14. INTERVENTIONS: A) A food questionnaire was administered to all the families at the mission by the method of remembering the 24 hours of the day prior to the study. B) For the anthropometric study, the following were determined: weight, size (stature) and brachial perimeter, triceps cutaneous fold and brachial muscular circumference. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Foods taken were expressed in terms of nutrients, and the results expressed as a percentage of requirements. In 1994 the nutrient most in deficit was calcium, in that 100% of the families had less than 10% of what was required. The findings showed deficiencies in food intake and growth levels below the International Reference Norms. CONCLUSIONS: Wild foods are not an essential component of the aborigines' habitual diet. Their consumption have declined over time under the influence of 'criollo' (creole) food.
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Pesos e Medidas Corporais , Deficiências Nutricionais/epidemiologia , Indígenas Sul-Americanos , Fenômenos Fisiológicos da Nutrição , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Argentina/epidemiologia , Estatura , Peso Corporal , Criança , Fenômenos Fisiológicos da Nutrição Infantil , Estudos Cross-Over , Ingestão de Energia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Inquéritos Nutricionais , Necessidades Nutricionais , Fatores SocioeconômicosRESUMO
Serum gammaglutamyl transpeptidase (gammaGT) and seudocholinesterase (CHE) were studied in 20 patients with acute viral hepatitis and 36 with alcoholic cirrhosis. All had from moderate to severe clinical evolution. gammaGT is an enzyme useful to determine, as to follow clinical-biochemical evolution of viral hepatitis specially in the colestatic form. CHE can be used as an evolution pointer of liver insufficiency specially in cirrhosis.
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Butirilcolinesterase/sangue , Colinesterases/sangue , Hepatite Viral Humana/enzimologia , Cirrose Hepática Alcoólica/enzimologia , gama-Glutamiltransferase/sangue , Doença Aguda , Alanina Transaminase/sangue , Aspartato Aminotransferases/sangue , HumanosRESUMO
Serum gammaglutamyl transpeptidase (gammaGT) and seudocholinesterase (CHE) were studied in 20 patients with acute viral hepatitis and 36 with alcoholic cirrhosis. All had from moderate to severe clinical evolution. gammaGT is an enzyme useful to determine, as to follow clinical-biochemical evolution of viral hepatitis specially in the colestatic form. CHE can be used as an evolution pointer of liver insufficiency specially in cirrhosis.
RESUMO
Serum gammaglutamyl transpeptidase (gammaGT) and seudocholinesterase (CHE) were studied in 20 patients with acute viral hepatitis and 36 with alcoholic cirrhosis. All had from moderate to severe clinical evolution. gammaGT is an enzyme useful to determine, as to follow clinical-biochemical evolution of viral hepatitis specially in the colestatic form. CHE can be used as an evolution pointer of liver insufficiency specially in cirrhosis.