[Influence of nutritional status on the effectiveness of a dietary supplement of live lactobacillus to prevent and cure diarrhoea in children].

The influence of undernutrition on the effectiveness of a dietary supplement of live lactobacillus regarding prevention and treatment of infantile diarrhoea was studied on 200 children 6 to 24m old. Children, undernourished (D) or controls (C), received for 90 days, in a blind experiment, a fermented milk providing L. Acidofilus y L.

Apolipoproteins A-I and B as predictors of complications in gallbladder lithiasis surgical patients.

Specific serum proteins have been traditionally used in the assessment of protein-energy malnutrition. Some short half-life serum proteins have been related to the appearance of postoperative complications in surgical patients with low-risk pathologies that, far from undernutrition, showed a trend toward overweight and obesity. Apolipoproteins have been proposed as potential tools to assess protein status and nutritional recovery, so we investigated apolipoproteins A-I and B as new tools with prognostic value to detect postoperative complications.

The molar ratio of retinol-binding protein to transthyretin in the assessment of vitamin A status in adults. Proposal of a cut-off point.

The molar ratio of retinol-binding protein to transthyretin (RBP:TTR) has been proposed as an indirect method to assess vitamin A status in children with inflammation. Neither reference values nor appropriate cut-off point are available for adults. RBP, TTR and retinol were determined in plasma from 100 healthy adults and 31 low-risk surgical patients with no inflammatory response.