NUTR 2050 Lecture Notes - Lactose Intolerance, Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight
13 Nov 2013
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Infancy: assessing growth, common nutrition problems, preterm infants. Rules of thumb for healthy growth: ______ : birth weight by 4- 6 months, ______ : birth weight by 1 year. Physical growth assessment: growth reflects, _____________ adequacy, health status, ___________ & environmental adequacy, calibrated scales & recumbent length measurement board required for accurate measures. Interpreting growth in children: unlike with adults, we don"t have standard __________ that apply for all children. I. e. , bmi > 30 = overweight: infant/child height and weight must be interpreted in the context of ____ and. Interpreting growth in children: we use percentile rankings to interpret height and weight of children. Infant is in the 95th percentile for weight for their age and gender: rank the individual child as compared to a ____________ population. Who is the reference population: the reference population is based on nationally representative samples of us children, data from 1963-1994; _______________, ____________ sample of children: both breastfed and formula fed infants.
