National Institutes of Health
- The primary NIH organization for research on Malabsorption Syndromes is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Your small intestine does most of the digesting of the foods you eat. If you have a malabsorption syndrome, your small intestine cannot absorb nutrients from foods.
Causes of malabsorption syndromes include
Treatment of malabsorption syndromes depends on the cause.
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)