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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Children--Growth"”.
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Impact of diarrhea on growth velocity in Egyptian infants.
… weight velocity, with no evidence of catch-up growth. Illness severity indices, namely the number of symptoms or illnesses experienced, number of stools/day, and presence of blood in stool were strong predictors of velocity during and one-month post-illness. Breastfeeding had a positive …
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NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOLING CHILDREN IN TANZANIA AND UGANDA: RESEARCH AND ACTION
Malnutrition affects millions of children worldwide. With its different faces – undernutrition and overnutrition – it is the result of several determinants, such as the lack/surplus of adequate food, life-style, mother’s low education, socio-economic situation. For this reason, any research on this …
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Growth patterns of hispanic and caucasian children
Growth of children is a powerful indicator of general health used in clinical evaluations. No studies have examined the growth of Hispanic children under 2 years of age and compared the growth with Caucasian children of the same population. Breast-feeding and its impact on growth in children under …
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Finding the Silver Lining: Children and families' abilities to perceive benefits in the face of adversity
… impacts their health; yet, research into children's perceptions is limited. Accordingly, this study investigated (a) what factors are associated with benefit finding in children, (b) the relationship between benefit finding among family members, and (c) whether children who perceived more …
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Intestinal Parasitic Infection: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Consequences for Child Growth, Iron Status and Development in Rural Ecuador
… and consequences of pathogenic IPI's on the growth, nutrition and psychomotor development of 244 Ecuadorian children aged 0.2-14 years. The study was conducted in five rural hamlets located in a tropical rainforest area in northwest Ecuador. The study data were obtained by means of a …