The relationship between tissue loss and function: recent developments.
Recent workers in this field have confirmed the complex interrelationship between structure and function. It is clear that the manner in which physiological impairment develops relative to compositional change depends on the setting within which malnutrition arises.
Vernon
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University Department of Surgery, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand.
Hill
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D001823:Body Composition; D004194:Disease; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D018529:Nutritional Support; D019282:Wasting Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology
D019382:Human Growth Hormone; D007334:Insulin-Like Growth Factor I