PERINATAL NUTRITION
Dr Roger Whitehead
(Director of the Dunn Nutrition Unit of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, was one of the speakers at the Bristol‐Myers symposium on this subject)
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Abstract
Dr Whitehead, described parallel studies carried out in England and the Gambia on the nutritional needs of infants and pregnant women. He reported that in The Gambia, prevalence of low birth weight infants is almost 20%, compared with only 6% normally encountered in industrial countries.
Citation
Whitehead, R. (1987), "PERINATAL NUTRITION", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 87 No. 1, pp. 20-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb059156
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1987, MCB UP Limited