The effects of nitrogen and energy intake on the metabolism of normal, depleted and injured man: considerations for practical nutritional support.
This article illustrates how the nutritional and metabolic effects of a range of protein and energy intakes depend on the clinical state of the patient and how these considerations may be used to provide guidelines for nutritional support. First, it is necessary to define states and mechanisms of malnutrition and then discuss the biochemical processes which underlie nutritional rehabilitation.
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Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Addenbrookes Hospital, Trumpinton Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QE UK.