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Cell mediated immune responses are depressed by protein-calorie malnutrition [ 28 ] , and this could account for differences in the response to tuberculosis in males and females since females had significantly lower body mass indices.
Now you are facing the prospects of homelessness, malnutrition and worse," said Dubin.
In short, nothing in the stories alleviates a creeping suspicion that this disease, while of great concern to newspaper editors with summer places in Connecticut and children at Camp Heapumwampum, is hardly on a par with say, rat bites, lead-paint poisoning, and malnutrition suffered by inner-city kids.
Risk factors determined for the syndrome include: age [ 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12], imbalance of electrolyte [ 5, 7, 10], hypotension [ 1, 7], hyperglycemia [ 1, 7, 8], azotemia [ 7, 12], fever/hypothermia and infections [ 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15], use of multiple drugs and withdrawal of alcohol [ 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16], male sex [ 7, 10], severe diseases such as cancer, cerebrovasculary or cardiopulmonary disease, malnutrition and burn [ 1, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18], patients who have been operated on and kept in ICUs [ 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19], and psychosocial environment [ 1, 3, 5, 20].
Edelman says the result will be "more malnutrition and more crime, increased infant mortality, and increased drug and alcohol abuse."