SCDRC has been aggressively studying metabolic disorders.
Using total body potassium measurement, which is a measure of body-cell mass, SCDRC has shown that an excellent relationship exists between the amount of total body potas-sium and energy expended at rest.
SCDRC recently found that the secretion of growth hormones is depressed in individuals with SCI.
Mark Korsten, a member of the Gastroenterology Division of the Medical Service at Bronx VAMC, in association with SCDRC, has been studying the motility of the gut in spinal-cord injury.
SCDRC is in the process of recruiting subjects for this most exciting and important study.