disease of carbohydrate metabolism
Galactosemia, the inability to metabolize galactose, is the most common monogenic disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, affecting 1 in every 55,000 newborns.arbohydrates account for a major portion of the human diet and are metabolized into three principal monosaccharides: galactose, fructose and glucose. The failure to effectively use these molecules accounts for the majority of the inborn errors of human carbohydrates metabolism.