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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages E299-E303Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181e9e43c
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nutrition; dietary assessment; children; cancer
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The nutritional status of children with cancer is clinically important. In an effort to separate the influences of disease and treatment, we studied children at the time of diagnosis. A total of 99 children underwent assessment by 24 hours dietary recall, measurement of body mass index (BMI), and analysis of body composition by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA scan). The group averages for calorie intake and BMI were close to the median population norms but ranged widely among individuals. As a group the study participants exceeded the Dietary Reference Intake for protein. Nine children (9%) had a BMI < fifth percentile. There were statistically significant but at best moderate correlations between dietary intake and body composition by DXA scan. Twenty-four hours dietary recall may not provide accurate assessment of nutritional status in individual children with cancer at diagnosis. However, DXA scans cannot be undertaken in a timely fashion on all children at this point. Alternative methods of assessment are being explored.
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