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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 61, 1253-1256, Copyright © 1995 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Comparison of the modified relative dose response (MRDR) and the relative dose response (RDR) in the assessment of vitamin A status in malnourished children

MA Wahed, JO Alvarez, MA Khaled, D Mahalanabis, MM Rahman and D Habte
International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The modified-relative-dose-response (MRDR) test and the relative-dose- response (RDR) test were compared in 49 mildly to moderately malnourished Bangladeshi children. The MRDR test had a significantly lower sensitivity, detecting only 71% of children with very low serum retinol (< or = 0.35 mumol/L) and 33% of children with low serum retinol (0.355-0.70 mumol/L) compared with 100% and 80% for the RDR test, respectively. The MRDR test showed a very strong dependency on retinol-binding protein (RBP) saturation (ie, percent saturation of RBP with retinol) compared with the RDR test. Only 3 (23%) of 13 children with RBP saturation > or = 55% but low vitamin A stores were diagnosed as abnormal by the MRDR test. This suggests that when apo-RBP concentration is limiting, as it is in malnourished children, didehydroretinol, the analog used in the MRDR test cannot effectively compete with retinol for binding to apo-RBP. Under these circumstances, the MRDR test is rendered ineffective. The possibility of increasing the sensitivity of the test by using a high dose of didehydroretinol needs to be investigated.


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