RT Journal
T1 THe protein factor in pernicious anemia
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD June 22
VO 92
IS 25
SP 2104
OP 2105
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510034015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700510034015
AB The importance of dietotherapy is beginning to be realized in many departments of medicine. Suitable selection of food for the sick has come to vie with the administration of drugs in the management of various types of patients. Clinical research is demonstrating more and more that several types of illness are greatly aggravated by attendant malnutrition, or more often by an outspoken undernutrition which complicates the fundamental disorder. Inadequate food intake predisposes, for example, to so-called nutritional edema in which protein starvation is an etiologic factor. An appreciation of this fact is leading to a change in the dietary prescriptions for certain types of patients suffering from nephrosis. There was a time, not long since, when a diagnosis of nephritis became the indication for an immediate restriction in protein intake on the theory that the abnormally functioning kidneys must be spared from undue work in eliminating nitrogenous waste. Today it