Nutritional status of the Indian population.
J Biosci
;
2001 Nov; 26(4 Suppl): 481-9
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-110902
ABSTRACT
High prevalence of low birth weight, high morbidity and mortality in children and poor maternal nutrition of the mother continue to be major nutritional concerns in India. Although nationwide intervention programmes are in operation over two decades, the situation has not changed greatly. In addition, the Indian population is passing through a nutritional transition and is expected to witness higher prevalences of adult non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and coronary heart disease according to the theory of 'fetal origin of adult disease'. Clearly, there is a need for examining several issues of nutritional significance for effective planning of interventions. In particular, maternal nutrition and fetal growth relationship, long term effects of early life undernutrition, interactions of prenatal nutritional experiences and postnatal undernutrition are some of the major issues that have been discussed in the present paper with the help of prospective data from various community nutrition studies carried out in the department.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Body Height
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Body Weight
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Infant, Newborn
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Pregnancy
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Child
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Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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Population Surveillance
Type of study:
Screening study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
J Biosci
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
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