the respective roles of reduced dietary intake and malabsorption in the pathogenesis of weight loss in persons with chronic tropical sprue have been evaluated . dietary intake was found to be significantly ( p less than 0.001 ) less in a group of 45 patients with tropical sprue , all of whom had anorexia due to deficiency of folate and/or vitamin b12 , than in a group of 51 healthy puerto ricans .
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malabsorption
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tropical sprue