Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Complications of Childhood Malnutrition
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 April 2026 | Viewed by 2463
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Childhood malnutrition contributes to millions of deaths worldwide and predisposes individuals to disordered growth, metabolism, and cognitive function. Despite the vast literature on the subject, there remain a number of unanswered fundamental questions regarding the etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment of the disorder. This Special Issue will explore the following: (a) the roles of maternal nutrition and infant feeding in the development of childhood growth failure and wasting; (b) the roles of hormones, growth factors, cytokines, and metabolites in the pathogenesis of, and adaptation to, acute malnutrition; (c) the effects of nutritional supplementation on short- and long-term recovery from childhood malnutrition; (d) the roles of enteropathogens and the microbiome in development, treatment, and complications of malnutrition; (e) the interplay of inflammation, infection, and immunity in acute and post-discharge mortality; and (f) changes in body composition following nutritional recovery and their relation to long-term cardiometabolic risk.
Prof. Dr. Michael Freemark
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- maternal nutrition
- prenatal growth
- growth failure
- wasting
- metabolomics
- microbiome
- enteropathy
- mortality
- cognition
- adiposity
- cardiometabolic risk
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