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2019-02-27

2019

Yavopoulos Panayotis

Λυρίτης Γεώργιος, Ομ. Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Δοντά Ισμήνη-Νίκη, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Τριανταφυλλόπουλος Ιωάννης, Επ. Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ

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Greek

Late skeletal effects of malnutrition

The skeletal system is a stabile and inflexible tissue, which, nonetheless, has the capacity to constantly remodel itself by adjusting to both the normal burdens of the body and the ways in which its environment affects it.
In order to maintain its good state, it is imperative that a person has a balanced diet which will provide the skeletal system with all the nutrients which function not only as structural elements but also as individual factors that affect the person’s metabolism. Proteins, vitamins, and trace elements are highly essential for bone health. The contribute to the bone plating procedure as well as the preservation of bone mass and bone density.
Lack of nutrients, as a result of malnutrition, could have various consequences on multiple systems of the human body. Hypocaloric malnutrition, hypoproteinemia malnutrition, protein-caloric malnutrition and anorexia nervosa, and clinical manifestations of starvation and are undoubtedly related to complications deriving from the skeletal system.
Consequences of malnutrition include decline of body density, development of osteopenia and osteoporosis, complications in skeletal development and growth, increased risk of fractures, sarcopenia, which negatively impacts the preservations of bone mass, adoption of opposing body postures and disruption of the process of bone plating. The above are true not only in case of malnutrition in general but also in cases of deficiencies of specific nutrients.
Taking into consideration the gravity of the consequences of malnutrition, constant attempts at preventing and curing it are deemed more than crucial.

Health Sciences

Malnutrition, Osteoporosis, Anorexia nervosa, Sarcopenia, Bone remodeling

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