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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 34, 1117-1120, Copyright © 1981 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Plasma lipids in tropical sprue

C Tiruppathi, PG Hill and VI Mathan

Previous studies indicated that many patients with tropical sprue in southern India have triglyceride accumulation within the cells of the intestinal mucosa. This could be due to essential fatty acid deficiency as a result of steatorrhea in subjects on a diet normally low in linoleic acid. Plasma lipids have, therefore, been studied in patients with tropical sprue and the results compared to values observed in healthy controls. The low intake of linoleic acid was found to be adequate to maintain normal levels of arachidonic acid and to repress the formation of 5,8,11-eicosatrienoic acid in rural controls. Patients with tropical sprue had decreased levels of plasma linoleic acid, raised monoenoic fatty acids and the appearance of 5,8,11- eicosatrienoic acid in the lecithin fraction. All of these observations indicate essential fatty acid depletion although unequivocal evidence of essential fatty acid deficiency was not present in any of the patients. The degree of essential fatty acid depletion observed is unlikely to be the cause of the mucosal accumulation of triglyceride in tropical sprue.




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