Evaluation of nutritional status in patients with endemic pemphigus foliaceus Avaliação do estado nutricional em pacientes portadores de pênfigo foliáceo endêmico

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Silvia Regina C. Sartori Barraviera, Neuza Lima Dillon, Paulo Roberto Curi, Paulo Câmara Marques Pereira, Dinah Borges de Almeida
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1995
• Subjects: Endemic pemphigus foliaceus; Nutritional status; Fogo Selvagem; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Fogo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651995000100008; https://doaj.org/article/c1f7211cbb8e4db2a8a3fb08b77d66bc

Sixteen patients with endemic pemphigus foliaceus were submitted to nutritional evaluation. Ten had the localized form of the disease (Group G1) and six the disseminated form (Group G2). The patients were submitted to anthropometric measurements (weight, height, Quetelét index, tricipital skin fold,...