title: Nutrition and lung water.
abstract: Lung water homeostasis and the subsequent prevention of pulmonary edema involve a balance of many forces and safety factors. Malnutrition and its effects on fluid distribution within body compartments and on oncotic pressure gradients can play a crucial role in this balance of forces. These forces are discussed, with emphasis on the complications of superimposed malnutrition.
mesh_terms: D001826:Body Fluids / Q000378:metabolism; D005110:Extracellular Space / Q000502:physiology; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D006874:Hydrostatic Pressure; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000517:prevention & control*