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6770952

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6230
pubmed:dateCreated
1980-9-23
pubmed:abstractText
Forty men who had sustained head injury were randomly assigned to one of five groups to receive 0.2 g nitrogen/kg body weight/day as either an elemental or a whole-protein diet. Three proprietary elemental and two whole-protein diets were compared. The mean daily nitrogen intake was below 0.2 g/kg in all groups, and was significantly lower in the groups receiving elemental compared with whole-protein diets. Energy intake was significantly different only between one group receiving an elemental and one receiving a whole-protein diet. Mean daily urinary nitrogen excretion was significantly lower in the groups receiving elemental diets, and mean daily nitrogen balance was negative in all groups except one receiving a whole-protein diet. Reduced nitrogen intakes occurred particularly with the elemental diets, which often provoked reflex vomiting or gastric stasis. The need to introduce diets at reduced strength made a negative balance almost inevitable, but nutritional balance seemed to be more readily achieved with the whole-protein diets. More work is needed to assess the relative merits of these proprietary diets compared with tube feeds prepared in hospitals.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0007-1447
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
280
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1493-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Comparison of proprietary elemental and whole-protein diets in unconscious patients with head injury.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial