EFFECT OF HONEY SUPPLEMEMTATION ON SERUM LEPTIN LEVEL IN MALNOURISHED CHILDREN

Olivia Kameel Shokrey;

Abstract


his study was a randomized single blinded case control prospective intervention study. Fifty infants and children of both sexes, aged 6 months to 3 years, with malnutrition were consecutively recruited from the Nutrition Clinic of the Pediatric Hospital, Ain Shams University.
These patients were randomly assigned following a simple randomization procedure (computerized random numbers) to either the honey group (group 1) or the malnourished control group (group 2) with a 1:1 allocation ratio. Each group consisted of 25 patients.
An additional 25 healthy infants and children with the same age range and of both sexes were recruited from the outpatient pediatric clinic of Ain Shams University, Egypt as a healthy control group (group 3).
The inclusion criteria was in whom the under nutrition is caused by inadequate energy intake, while the exclusion criteria included markedly ill patients, and children with chronic or severe systemic illness or malabsorption disorders, chromosomal aberrations, inborn errors of metabolism and cerebral palsy.
History taking with special emphasis on the dietetic history, history of any disease that might interfere with the


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Title EFFECT OF HONEY SUPPLEMEMTATION ON SERUM LEPTIN LEVEL IN MALNOURISHED CHILDREN
Other Titles تأثير العسل كمكمل غذائي علي مستوي هرمون الليبتين في الاطفال التي تعاني من سوء التغذية
Authors Olivia Kameel Shokrey
Issue Date 2017

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