Artificial Nutrition Support in Clinical Practice
Contributors: Jason Payne-James (Editor); George Grimble (Editor); David Silk (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Published: January 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9780340567609
Subjects: Clinical & Internal Medicine; Dietetics & nutrition; Specific disorders & therapies
First sentence: Starvation has often been described as producing a series of stereotyped metabolic changes, such as progressive diminution in resting and total energy expenditure, a progressive decrease in the proportion of endogenous energy derived from protein mobilisation and an increase in the proportion derived from fat and ketone bodies.