13C-sucrose breath test: novel use of a noninvasive biomarker of environmental gut health
Autor: | Geoffrey P. Davidson, Cuong D. Tran, Yvette McNeil, Joanna S. Hawkes, Ross N. Butler, David Brewster, Brett Ritchie |
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Přispěvatelé: | Ritchie, Brett K, Brewster, David R, Davidson, Geoffrey P, Tran, Cuong D, McNeil, Yvette, Hawkes, Joanna S, Butler, Ross N |
Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Sucrose Cell Membrane Permeability Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Gastroenterology Rhamnose Environmental Illness Lactulose Reference Values Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology Intestine Small South Australia Carbon Radioisotopes Australian Aborigines Intestinal Mucosa medicine.diagnostic_test Dehydration Diarrhea Breath Tests Child Preschool Biomarker (medicine) Female medicine.symptom medicine.drug medicine.medical_specialty tropical enteropathy Asymptomatic gut function Sprue Tropical Diagnosis Differential Predictive Value of Tests Internal medicine medicine Northern Territory Blood test Humans tropic sprue Breath test Environmental enteropathy Intestinal permeability business.industry sucrose breath test intestinal permeability Infant medicine.disease Intestinal Absorption Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Immunology Diarrhea Infantile environmental enteropath business |
Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 124(2) |
ISSN: | 1098-4275 |
Popis: | OBJECTIVE: Environmental enteropathy syndrome may compromise growth and predispose to infectious diseases in children in the developing world, including Australian Aboriginal children from remote communities of the Northern Territory. In this study, we described the use of a biomarker 13C-sucrose breath test (SBT) to measure enterocyte sucrase activity as a marker of small intestinal villus integrity and function. METHODS: This was a hospital-based prospective case-control study of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children with and without acute diarrheal disease. Using the SBT, we compared 36 Aboriginal case subjects admitted to a hospital (18 diarrheal and 18 nondiarrheal disease), with 7 healthy non-Aboriginal control subjects. Intestinal permeability using the lactulose/rhamnose (L/R) ratio on a timed 90-minute blood test was performed simultaneously with the SBT. The SBT results are expressed as a cumulative percentage of the dose recovered at 90 minutes. RESULTS: Aboriginal children with acute diarrheal disease have a significantly decreased absorptive capacity, as determined by the SBT, with a mean of 1.9% compared with either Aboriginal children without diarrhea (4.1%) or non-Aboriginal (6.1%) control subjects. The mean L/R ratio in the diarrhea group was 31.8 compared with 11.4 in Aboriginal children without diarrhea. There was a significant inverse correlation between the SBT and the L/R ratio. CONCLUSIONS: The SBT was able to discriminate among Aboriginal children with diarrhea, asymptomatic Aboriginal children with an underlying environmental enteropathy, and healthy non-Aboriginal controls. This test provides a noninvasive, easy-to-use, integrated marker of the absorptive capacity and integrity of the small intestine and could be a valuable tool in evaluating the efficacy of interventions aimed at improving gut health. |
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