Unmeasured losses of potassium in balance studies
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- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 38 (3) , 347-348
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/38.3.347
Abstract
A comparison of changes in body K content calculated from metabolic balance and from 40K counting shows that the former technique overestimates K retention and underestimates K losses. The disparity in results by the two methods increases with increasing K intakes.Keywords
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