| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 923 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1:General Concepts. Pediatric nutrition: a distinct subspecialty -- Clinical assessment of nutritional status -- Laboratory assessment of nutritional status -- Body composition and growth -- Macronutrient requirements for growth: carbohydrates -- Macronutrient requirements for growth: protein/amino acids -- Micronutrient requirements for growth: fats and fatty acids -- Trace elements -- Iron -- Vitamins -- Dietary reference intakes -- International nutrition -- Protein-energy malnutrition: pathophysiology, clinical consequences, and treatment -- Childhood malnutrition: prevention and control at the national level -- Community nutrition and its impact on children: industrialized countries -- Nutritional epidemiology -- Food safety -- Drug therapy and role of nutrition |
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Part 2: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Nutrition and gene expression -- Nutrition and humoral regulation of growth -- Gastrointestinal development: implications for infant feeding -- Immunophysiology and nutrition of the gut -- Malnutrition and host defense -- Neuropsychological development -- Nutrition and the behavior of children |
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Part 3: Perinatal Nutrition. Maternal nutrition and pregnancy outcome -- Human growth and disease in later life -- Development of the fetus: carbohydrate and lipid metabolism -- Amino acid nutrition in utero: placental function and metabolism -- Human milk: nutritional properties -- Protective properties of human milk -- Approach to breast-feeding -- The low-birth-weight infant: inpatient care -- Nutritional management of preterm infants postdischarge -- The term infant -- Complementary feeding |
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Part 4. Obesity and Energy Balance. Energy metabolism and requirements in health and disease -- Energy and substrate regulation in obesity -- Evaluation and Management in obesity -- Complications of obesity: metabolic syndrome -- Popular diets for obesity |
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Part 5: Nutritional Aspects of Specific Disease States. Feeding difficulties -- Failure to thrive -- Nutritional assessment of the hospitalized patient -- Developmental disabilities -- Inborn errors of fasting adaptation: glycogen storage -- Inborn errors of metabolism and the liver -- Persistent renal disease -- Inflammatory bowel disease -- Pediatric HIV infection -- Celiac disease -- Food allergies -- Exocrine pancreatic disease including cystic fibrosis -- Acute and chronic liver disease -- Cancer prevention -- Cancer treatment -- Diabetes Mellitis -- Diarrheal diseases -- Intestinal failure, short bowel syndrome, and intestinal transplantation -- The critically ill child -- Hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular disease risk -- Carbohydrate absorption and malabsorption -- Nutritional anemias -- Function and nature of the components in the oral cavity -- Adolescence: healthy and disordered eating -- The adolescent athlete: performance-enhancing drugs and dietary supplements -- Adolescence: bone disease |
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Part 6 : Approach to Nutritional Support. Standard and specialized enteral formulas -- Enteral nutrition -- Parenteral nutrition -- Dietary supplements and nutraceuticals -- Special diets |
| Notes |
Previously published as: Nutrition in pediatrics : basic science and clinical applications, 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children -- Nutrition.
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Diet therapy for children.
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Nutrition disorders in children.
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Nutrition disorders in infants.
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Infants -- Nutrition.
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Teenagers -- Nutrition
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Child Nutrition Disorders
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Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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Infant Nutrition Disorders
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Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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Nutrition disorders in infants
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Nutrition disorders in children
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Infants -- Nutrition
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Children -- Nutrition
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Diet therapy for children
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duggan, Christopher (Christopher P.)
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Watkins, John B., 1938-
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Walker, W. Allan.
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| LC no. |
2010485691 |
| ISBN |
1550093614 |
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9781550093612 |
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