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Autor:
Barbara A. Underwood
Publikováno v:
Nutrition Reviews. 48:265-274
Clinical eye signs are estimated to affect 5-10 million children annually in the developing world. Thus most experience with large-scale prophylaxis programs has been with periodic distribution of high-dose vitamin A supplements directed toward preve
Autor:
Barbara A. Underwood
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Nutrition. 133:1434S-1437S
Food and nutrition insecurity, which affects an estimated 815 million households (the majority in developing countries), is in large part due to micronutrient deficiencies. The magnitude of the problem, causes, consequences and cost-effective solutio
Autor:
Barbara A. Underwood
Publikováno v:
Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 21:356-360
Severe forms of protein–energy malnutrition still occur, but they are associated most commonly with devastating natural disasters and civil unrest. With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, progress in combating chronic undernutrition is also occur
Autor:
Barbara A. Underwood
Publikováno v:
Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 21:117-123
As a public health problem, deficiency of vitamin A occurs when the habitual intake of bioavailable vitamin A is too little to meet physiological needs under prevailing conditions. Needs are increased during growth periods and when frequent infection
Publikováno v:
Annual Review of Nutrition. 19:303-324
▪ Abstract Global progress in social and economic development is occurring, although slowly, in the most needy parts of the nonindustrialized world, where nutritional deficiencies, including micronutrients, remain significant public health problems
Autor:
M. E. Panny, Jose Martines, Barbara A. Underwood, Paul Arthur, Maharaj K. Bhan, Betty R. Kirkwood, Larry H Moulton, M. Ram, Rajiv Bahl
Publikováno v:
The Lancet. 352:1257-1263
Publikováno v:
Nutrition Research. 18:533-541
The relative dose response (RDR) has been proposed as a method for the estimation of body vitamin A stores and has been tested in children suffering from various grades of malnutrition. RDR was tested before and after 4–6 days of vitamin A administ
Autor:
Barbara A. Underwood
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Nutrition. 128:145-151
The professional life history of E. V. McCollum exemplifies how sound nutrition-related laboratory research was translated into practical realities that influenced individual and national nutrition-related decisions. Public health and educational pro
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition. 23:197-204
The total proteins and collagenase activity in tears as well as α2-macroglobulin (anticollagenase) and vitamin A levels in serum, were estimated in 35 malnourished children with corneal lesions, in 30 malnourished controls (age matched) without corn