Children may be malnourished and could possibly suffer from Protein-calorie malnutrition (Berger 142).

The starvation effects of anorexia nervosa are very different to those found in conditions such as protein-calorie malnutrition or famine.

Protein-calorie malnutrition can cause cognitive impairments.

Protein-energy malnutrition (or protein-calorie malnutrition) refers to a form of malnutrition where there is inadequate protein intake.

Also known as cachexia, this condition is one of advanced protein-calorie malnutrition and is characterized by involuntary weight loss, muscle wasting, and decreased quality of life.

In a paper titled "Classification and Definition of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition", John Conrad Waterlow established a new classification for malnutrition.

Twenty other rats were submitted to a 15 day period of protein-calorie malnutrition and were then distributed to four equal groups of five animals (81 (2) g) and subjected to an identical diet.

In the same group, 25 other infants suffered from protein-calorie malnutrition, anemia caused by deficiencies of iron and vitamin B12, rickets from a lack of vitamin D, zinc deficiency and multiple infections.

Protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) is the most common secondary diagnosis in individuals diagnosed with cancer, stemming from the inadequate intake of carbohydrate, protein, and fat to meet metabolic requirements and/or the reduced absorption of macronutrients.

Cell mediated immune responses are depressed by protein-calorie malnutrition [ 28 ] , and this could account for differences in the response to tuberculosis in males and females since females had significantly lower body mass indices.

These factors are protein-calorie malnutrition, microclimate (skin wetness caused by sweating or incontinence), diseases that reduce blood flow to the skin, such as arteriosclerosis, or diseases that reduce the sensation in the skin, such as paralysis or neuropathy.

In fact, Dr. Bhaskaron, who conducted the experiment on five children suffering from kwashiorkor, a severe form of protein-calorie malnutrition, noted in his published paper that the biological significance of the formation of polyploid cells - the chromosomal damage - was unclear, as was their long-term significance.

Although some of the deaths occurred in people with underlying diseases such as atherosclerosis (and therefore could have been coincidental), government researchers who examined otherwise healthy dieters who died of ventricular arrhythmias found that the pattern of deaths suggested "the effects of protein-calorie malnutrition on the heart," including atrophy of the heart muscle.