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KENT LUNDHOLM, MD, PHD; STAFFAN EDSTRÖM, MD, PHD; ELISABETH EDÉN, MD; KLAS BENNEGRD, MD
Gothenburg, Sweden

Arch Otolaryngol. 1983;109(9):635.

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In Reply.—We regret that our article, which was a summary of recent and unpublished work from our laboratory, did not give the complete information under the "Patients" section that our control group was matched according to physical activity, age, and malnutrition. Therefore, we hereby want to add the information that our patients with and without cancer had lost similar amounts of weight and that the groups had a comparable degree of malnutrition assessed by conventional means, eg, body weight, actual to ideal weight, triceps skinfold, midarm circumference, serum albumin concentration, and total body potassium. However, it may well be that the patients with cancer were slightly more protein malnourished and their conditions were evaluated from lower serum albumin concentrations. The patients with cancer who received enteral nutrition were also essentially comparable with the patients with cancer receiving parenteral nutrition. However, the groups were too small to allow meaningful comparison between the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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