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B Kustodiev. Vendedora de frutas y verduras - 1920
B Kustodiev. Vendedora de frutas y verduras - 1920

The name "kwashiorkor" indicates the disease the deposed baby gets when the next one is born, and is the local name in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet, which was first described in December, 1933

Cicely D. Williams. Kwashiorkor. A nutritional disease of children associated with a maize diet. Lancet 1935;2:1151-2.

Michael Krawinkel, Commentary: Kwashiorkor is still not fully understood