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(He peruses her teeth for signs of decay from recurrent vomiting; he flips through her laundry checking underwear for pubic-hair shedding, a sign of malnutrition.)
The worst-treated, however, were the Native Americans, whose numbers dwindled rapidly not only as a result of disease and malnutrition but also because of systematic massacres in the 1850s by Californian militia.
Many died from disease and malnutrition before the work was complete, but the dockyard proved to be a bastion of the British Empire and served to protect the motherland even as recently as World War II.
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].
Although generally thought to have a later presentation [ 1 ] than other primary intestinal malabsorption syndromes, recent reports of infants with SI deficiency indicate the existence of an early onset form (presentation of diarrhea at 2-16 weeks) that is complicated by severe malnutrition [ 2 ] . Starnes and Walsh [ 3 ] observed renal calculi in two adults with sucrase deficiency, but neither patient had evidence of hypercalcemia.
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