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N Hillman

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Adolescent depression: relationships of self-report to intellectual and adaptive functioning.

Self-report measures of depression, general psychopathology, and social skills were administered to adolescents ranging from moderate mental retardation to above normal intelligence. Adolescents with mental retardation reported more depression and general psychopathology symptoms. Variance and regression analyses demonstrated distinctions on the basis of mental retardation status for individual measures. Additional analyses identified differences between individuals with above normal intelligence and individuals with mild mental retardation on the basis of depression specifically. Adaptive behavior functioned as a moderator variable, mediating the relationship between depression and intellectual functioning.

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[Critical analysis of the evolution of commercial preparations for enteral nutrition during 1988-1996].

Enteral nutrition is a form of nutritional support that is continually growing and expanding, and within this area especially the enteral preparations or formulae. The object of the present is to analyze the evolution of the commercially available nutritionally complete enteral preparations between 1988 and 1997, illustrating the variations that have occurred both from the quantitative and form the qualitative points of view. A progressive increase is seen in the absolute number of available enteral formulae, with the increase in both polymeric formulae with dietary fiber, and that of formulae designed for specific diseases being significant (p < 0.05). The standard polymeric formulae and the oligomeric formulae decrease, but not in a significant manner. There is a special discussion or the characteristic and the usefulness of the polymeric formulae with dietary fiber ad the formulae designed especially for specific diseases. The clinical efficacy of most of these special formulae is controversial, with there not being sufficient objective clinical evidence at present that justifies their routine use.

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[Nutritional management of radiation-induced enteritis: apropos of a case].

We present a case of a 46-year-old woman who is hospitalized in March of 1997 for a picture of severe mixed malnutrition. We describe the clinical history since the diagnosis of an endometrium carcinoma in 1995, treated with radiation therapy, with the aim of determining the etiology of the severe malnutrition picture, as well as the different complications she presented in the course of her hospitalization that justify the decisions made in the choice of the nutritional support.

Crohn Disease↗

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[Results of nutritional treatment of anorexia nervosa: our experience (1989-1995)].

With the alm of evaluating the nutritional treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN) in our center, evolutive data were collected, as well as anthropometric and biochemical parameters, of out out patient department (OPD) as well as of our hospital admissions (HA) which took place between 1989-91 (period A) and between 1992-95 (period B). 79 cases of HA were included (5 men, 31 women), with a duration of hospitalization of 36.96 +/- 22.02 days, with the reason for release most often (86.84%) being reaching the agreed upon weight, and 124 cases of OPD (12 men and 112 women), who were followed for 11.53 +/- 12.13 months achieving a final release rate of 14.14%. The nutritional status (NS) of the HA patients upon admission was most often sever caloric malnutrition (CM) (64.55%), and upon release this was moderate CM (60.75%), while in the OPD the moderate CM was most frequent at the initial visit and at the last visit registered. The anthropometric parameter which was most affected, was the triceps fold (TF), followed by the wight (W). The biochemical abnormalities were few, with hypercholesterolemia and ferropenia being notable. The nutritional treatment in the OPD required the addition of dietary supplements in 31% of the cases, and of psycho-medication in 43%. In the HA cases, only 6 patients reached the agreed upon wight with a free oral diet, and 35 patients required dietary supplements, 20 needed mixed therapy (enteral nutrition and supplements), and 17 cases required enteral nutrition through a naso-gastric tube. Significant multivariant models are presented which find independent associations for the probability of release (lower age upon diagnosis, male, lower income, absence of bulimia's, no need for dietary supplements), of amenorrhoea (worse NS, absence of vomiting), and for the HA time (more interventionist treatment, lower weight, lower age). The comparison between periods, shows an initial contact of the patients with AN with our OPD, with a better nutritional status y recent years, as well as a better nutritional result, a greater tendency towards the use of enteral nutrition, and a shorter time of HA.

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