essential fatty acid deficiency

pathology

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nutritional disease

  • rickets, a nutritional disease
    In nutritional disease: Essential fatty acids

    Deficiencies of these two fatty acids have been seen in hospitalized patients fed exclusively with intravenous fluids containing no fat for weeks, patients with medical conditions affecting fat absorption, infants given formulas low in fat, and young children fed nonfat milk or low-fat diets. Symptoms…

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