Cardiac cTnT is an abundant cardiac protein that is not detected at a significant level in healthy individuals and is released predominantly during cardiac damage.[34] The present study revealed that cTnT levels were higher than the upper reference limits in 11 of the malnourished children (24.44%), all having a severe degree of malnutrition; six of them (54.5%) had M III, two (18%) had KWO and three (27.7%) had M-KWO. This evidence concerns the gene TNNT2 and nutritional deficiency disease.