Perinatal Nutrition
Subtitle: Optimizing Infant Health & Development (Nutrition and Disease Prevention)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780824754747
Subjects: Paediatric medicine; Nutrition; Infant Nutrition; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Perinatology & Neonatology; Health & Fitness / Nutrition; Fetal Development; Embryology; Child Development; Infant Nutrition Physiology
First sentence: The problems of low birth weight (LBW &lt; 2500 g), intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) or being small for gestational age (SGA), and preterm delivery (&lt;37 completed weeks' gestation) are well known, and a vast amount of research has been undertaken to understand the etiology of these poor pregnancy outcomes and to identify effective strategies for their prevention.