Malnutrition is the insufficient, excessive or imbalanced consumption of nutrients. A number of different nutrition disorders may arise, depending on which nutrients are under or overabundant in the diet.
The World Health Organization cites hunger as the gravest single threat to the world's public health. Malnutrition is, by far, the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases. Malnutrition, in the form of iodine deficien...
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Malnutrition
Medicine
Prevention factors:
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Diseases with this Risk Factor:
- Cholera
- Tuberculosis
- Kwashiorkor
- Diphtheria
- Osteoporosis
- Gynecomastia
- Bedsore
- Marchiafava-Bignami disease
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great arteries