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ALTHOUGH permanent organic defects can probably result from prolonged chronic malnutrition, no lesion has so far been proved to follow treated kwashiorkor in man1. Persistence of low lactase activity in the jejunal mucosa is a possible exception2.
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COOK, G. Glucose Tolerance after Kwashiorkor. Nature 215, 1295–1296 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151295a0
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