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Body composition and disease: is there anything new to be learned?

Asia Pac J Clin Nutr

December 1996

Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism, the research branch for the Committee for the Blind and Deaf of Guatemala, "Dr. Rodolfo Robles V." Eye and Ear Hospital, Guatemala.

The observation that disease has an effect on the tissues of the human body is as old as medicine, itself, and was not lost on preliterate and pre-technological societies. Primary changes in the amount, proportions or quality of total body mass, specific organs and specific tissues constitute pathologies; conversely, changes in body composition secondary to and conditioned by diseases are myriad. The classification of most of the associations has been roughly addressed.

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Effects of nutritional status on carotene uptake and bioconversion.

Ann N Y Acad Sci

December 1993

Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM), Dr. Rodolfo Robles V. Eye and Ear Hospital, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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