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Risk Factors and Signs of Copper Deficiency
Risk Factors:
 • Gastrointestinal: Previous upper bowel resection/bariatric surgery, Inflammatory
Inflammatory bowel disease ... Metabolic: Menkes disease ... • Nutritional: ... /jejunal nutrition ... Ischaemic heart disease
Nutrition in Cirrhosis: Dos and Don’ts
Screening:
 • Patients at risk for RFH-Nutritional Prioritizing Tool
 • Low
Nutrition in Cirrhosis ... Advanced liver disease ... chronic liver diseases ... chronic liver disease ... consequence of the disease
Osteoporosis: Pathogenesis and risk factors

 • Age > 30 (post-peak bone mass)
 • Post-menopausal women ->
Leukemia) • GI diseases ... liver or kidney disease ... decr activity, nutrition
Prevention and Treatment of Nutritional Complications after Bariatric Surgery
Types of Bariatric Surgery:
 • Adjustable Gastric Banding
and Treatment of Nutritional ... Gallstones • Liver Disease ... Complications #Nutrition
Causes of Copper Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis
Hereditary: 
 - Menkes disease, familial hypoceruloplasminemia
Decreased / Inadequate Intake:
Hereditary: - Menkes disease ... inflammatory bowel disease ... colitis, Crohn's disease ... Parenteral or enteral nutrition ... Differential #Diagnosis #nutrition
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Diet Recommendations:
Crohn's Disease:
 • Increase: Vegetables, Fruits
 • Decrease: Saturated and trans
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ... Recommendations: Crohn's Disease ... Inflammatory #Bowel #Disease ... recommendations #nutrition
Unintentional Weight Loss - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Malnutrition:
 • Limited access to food
 • Anorexia
 • Disorders
• Small bowel disease ... Cholestatic liver disease ... Differential #Diagnosis #Nutrition
Folate Deficiency - Causes of Decreased Folic Acid
↓ Intake: Diet, Age, Alcohol
↑ Demand: Pregnancy, Infancy, Hemolysis,
Absorption: Coeliac disease ... differential #diagnosis #nutrition
Pathologic / Fragility Fractures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Tumours
 - See Bone Lesions Scheme
Paget's Disease
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Scheme Paget's Disease ... Gastrointestinal Disease ... • Rheumatoid Disease ... • Renal Disease ... • Poor Nutrition
Causes of Iron Deficiency
 • Inadequate Intake: Vegetarian/vegan diet, Malnutrition
 • Increased Body Needs: Infants/preschoolers, Pregnancy,
Edema, Celiac disease ... • Inflammatory Disease ... diagnosis #causes #nutrition