| dc.contributor.author | Bundi, J | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-23T12:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-23T12:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1986 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Master Of Medicine (Paediatrics) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/24886 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Severe PEM is an important disease in this country.
It is associated 1iith considerable morbidity and mortality in infants and young children. -.There are some clinical
and pathological features that occur commonly in both severe PEM and states of hypothyroidism.
This study was undertaken to investigate the thyroid hormone status in severe PEM. Hormone concentrations for FT3, FT4 and TSH were measured by radioimmunoassay procedure
in 67 children wi.t h severe PEl'! and 67 controls matched for
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age and sex, between the ages of 4 and 34 months.
There was significant depression of FT3 and FT4 in patients with kwashiorkor, marasmus and marasmic kwashiorkor. The levels of 'l'SHin the patients with severe PEJIIwere
normal when compared to the levels in normal patients. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University Of Nairobi | en |
| dc.title | Pattern of thyroid :function in children with protein energy malnutrition as seen at Kenyatta National Hospital. | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
| local.publisher | College of Health Sciences | en |
