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Symposium on Malnutrition and Infection during Pregnancy (1974: Guatemala City). 1975. Malnutrition and infection during pregnancy: Determinants of growth and development of the child. Washington, DC: Agency for International Development, 75 pp. (American Journal of Diseases of Children; v. 129, no. 4, no.5)

Annotation: These papers discuss nutrition individuality; placental function and malnutrition; nutrition of pregnant women in Thailand, Central America, Panama, and industrialized societies; maternal nutrition and fetal growth in developing societies; fetal defense mechanisms; routes of fetal infection and mechanisms of fetal damage; fetal malnutrition and postnatal immunocompetence; diagnosis of chronic perinatal infections; nutritional influences in industrial societies; infection and low birth weight in an industrialized society and developing country; survival and physical growth in infancy and early childhood; birth weight and psychomotor performance in rural Guatemala; synergistic effects of maternal malnutrition and infection in the infant; and animal models for investigation of latent effects of malnutrition.

Keywords: Central America, Fetal development, Fetal diseases, Guatemala, Low birthweight, Maternal nutrition, Panama, Perinatal health, Placenta, Pregnant women, Psychomotor development, Thailand

National Research Council, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Maternal Nutrition. 1973. Nutritional Supplementation and the Outcome of Pregnancy: Proceedings of a workshop—November 3-5, 1971, Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 153 pp.

Annotation: This workshop discussed three major programs (in Guatemala, Montreal, and Taiwan) for supplementing the diets of pregnant women with calories and protein. It also examined a metabolic balance study of pregnant adolescents with an emphasis on protein. Finally, studies using formula dietary supplements in New York, Omaha, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. were considered. The goals of the workshop were to focus attention on problems, gaps, and omissions in nutrition services for pregnant women; to assemble and evaluate current data on the dietary needs of pregnant women; and to prepare an interim report on the value of nutritional supplementation during pregnancy, with emphasis on calories and protein. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Service]

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, California, Calories, District of Columbia, Food supplements, Guatemala, Metabolism, Montreal, Nebraska, New York, Nutrition services, Pregnant women, Protein, Taiwan
   

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