The fatty meal test: an alternative to stool fat analysis
| Autor: | O. Blondheim, Halina Stankiewicz, Robert Goldstein, Serem Freier, Emile Levy |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Malabsorption Time Factors Medicine (miscellaneous) Biology Gastroenterology Butterfat chemistry.chemical_compound Feces Internal medicine Chylomicrons medicine Humans Child Triglycerides Nutrition and Dietetics Triglyceride digestive oral and skin physiology Infant medicine.disease Lipid Metabolism Dietary Fats Fat malabsorption Steatorrhea Celiac Disease Basal (medicine) chemistry Child Preschool medicine.symptom Chylomicron |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of clinical nutrition. 38(5) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9165 |
| Popis: | In view of the technical difficulties inherent in using stool fat estimations as a parameter of malabsorption, we used a fatty meal absorption test. Children under investigation for failure to thrive were divided into two groups, those having a normal stool fat output (less than 3.2 g/day) constituting the control group, and those having steatorrhea. After a fatty meal containing 25 g of margarine and 25 g of butter fat, we measured the rise of serum triglycerides and chylomicrons hourly for 5 h. Serum triglyceride rise of less than 100 mg/dl or less than 100% above basal values and the appearance of less than 7% of chylomicrons were considered pathological. Of our control group 95% had a normal rise of triglycerides; and 96% of our patients with steatorrhea had an abnormal rise. This test was more reliable than the two-point triglyceride test previously described for the diagnosis of fat malabsorption. The fatty meal test as described here is considered to be a useful test of absorptive function. |
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