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Descriptor English: Energy Malnutrition
Descriptor Spanish: Desnutrición Energética
Descriptor desnutrición calórica
Descriptor Portuguese: Desnutrição Energética
Descriptor French: Malnutrition Énergétique
Entry term(s): Caloric Malnutrition
Tree number(s): SP6.990.625.344.537.214
Scope note: A set of diseases that occur due to a deficiency in the supply, transport or use of nutrients, mainly energy and proteins, by the body's cells, affecting infants and preschool children more frequently. (Adapted from https://bit.ly/2V1BdSf)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 50315
Unique ID: DDCS050315
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Energy Malnutrition - Preferred
Concept UI FD00061472
Scope note A set of diseases that occur due to a deficiency in the supply, transport or use of nutrients, mainly energy and proteins, by the body's cells, affecting infants and preschool children more frequently. (Adapted from https://bit.ly/2V1BdSf)
Preferred term Energy Malnutrition
Entry term(s) Caloric Malnutrition



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