Beslenme ve İmmünite

Abstract

It has long been known that in developing countries morbidity and mortality rate dueto from infeetions is veryrather high. The main problems in these countries are, of course, nutritional deficiencies. With that aproach, elose relationship has been found between nutritional deprivation and immune status. Actually, although some conflicting evidences exist, the results generally have focused on immune impairement in nutritional deficiencies. Despite the fact that in experimental conditions it is not difficult to create a one-nutrient-deficient animal model, under clinical situations the deficiencies are rather comlicated. For this reason in the evaluation of immune status in patients with nutritional deficiency, one can never single the immune impairement to only the deprivation of a single vitamin.