Metabolic Disorders
Metabolic disorder are disorders or diseases due to an abnormal metabolism. For example, diabetes is a metabolic disorder with an abnormal glucose metabolism. There are disorders of many different types: calcium metabolism, magnesium, potassium, and many others. Closely related are the endocrine disorders.
There is also a particular cluster of
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Introduction: Metabolic Disorders
Metabolism is the process your body uses to get or make energy from the food you eat. Food is made up of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Chemicals in your digestive system break the food parts down into sugars and acids
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Causes List: Metabolic Disorders
Some of the causes of the condition may include:2 Causes of Metabolic Disorders:
- 17- Beta Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase III Deficiency
- 46,XX Gonadal Dysgenesis
- 6- Phosphofructo-2-Kinase/Fructose-2,6-Bisphosphatase 1
- Abelson Murine Leukemia Viral Oncogene Homolog 1
- Acetophenetidin Sensitivity
- Acetylation, Slow
- Adrenal Hypoplasia, Congenital, With Absent Pituitary ...
Causes List for Metabolic Disorders
Some possible causes of Metabolic Disorders or similar disorders may include:3
- Abrin Poisoning (Metabolic acidosis)
- Acute Kidney Failure (metabolic acidosis)
- Acute kidney damage (metabolic acidosis)
- Alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase deficiency (Metabolic acidosis)
- Amish lethal microcephaly (Metabolic acidosis) ...
Types of Metabolic Disorders
Types of metabolic disorders include:
- Acidosis
- Alkalosis
- Electrolyte imbalance
- High calcium (hypercalcemia)
- Low calcium (hypocalcemia)
- High magnesium (hypermagnesemia)
- Low magnesium (Hypomagnesemia)
- High potassium (hyperkalemia)
- Low potassium (hypocalcemia)
- High salt / high sodium (hypernatremia)
- Low salt / low sodium (hyponatremia)
- High phosphorus
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Types of Metabolic Disorders
Metabolic disorders
- 17-alpha-hydroxylase deficiency
- 17-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency
- 18 Hydroxylase deficiency
- 2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria
- 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyric aciduria
- 2-methylbutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
- 3 Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase 1 deficiency
- 3-alpha hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency ...
Genetics of Metabolic Disorders
Many of these are inborn errors of metabolism: inherited traits that are due to a mutation in a metabolic enzyme; others involve mutations in regulatory proteins and in transport mechanisms.
...Source: NCBI, Genes and Disease (NCBI/NIH)4
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Names and Terminology
Synonyms:
Laboratory abnormality ; Metabolism abnormality
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References
- Source: MedLinePlus (NIH): medlineplus.gov/ metabolicdisorders.html
- Source: Human Phenotype Ontology
- Source: Algorithmically Generated List
- Source: NCBI, Genes and Disease (NCBI/NIH): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ books/ NBK22259/
- Source: GTR (NCBI/NIH): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ gtr/ conditions/ CN001754/
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