You Are Reading a Case Study from a Researcher at World

question 46

Multiple Choice

You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University.The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a 15-month-old boy.The researcher described the child as extremely thin and bony,with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver.For the past year,this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink.Your first thought is that all of these observations are characteristic of marasmus except for the

• A)wrinkled skin.
• B)food intake pattern.
• C)enlarged fatty liver.
• D)extremely thin,bony appearance.

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