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Incidental Findings , Kidney Neoplasms/pathology , Kidney/abnormalities , Wilms Tumor/pathology , Biopsy, Needle , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Immunohistochemistry , Infant , Kidney/pathology , Kidney Neoplasms/diagnosis , Kidney Neoplasms/therapy , Risk Assessment , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods , Urinary Tract Infections/diagnosis , Urinary Tract Infections/drug therapy , Vesico-Ureteral Reflux/diagnosis , Vesico-Ureteral Reflux/therapy , Wilms Tumor/diagnosis , Wilms Tumor/therapyABSTRACT
The nutritional status of about 800 children from birth to thirteen years on four of the six inhabited Turks and Caicos Islands was assessed. Clinical examination revealed few signs of specific nutritional deficiences. Dental caries was common. Anthropometric examination showed that 4.5 percent of infants and 7.3 percent of pre-school children weighed less than 80 percent of international standards, a prevalence of underweight much less than recorded in other parts of the West Indies. Mean heights and weights of school children were also relatively good although less than present-day international standards. Girls were, on average, taller and heavier than boys from 7 years of age onwards. Haemoglobin values of less than 10g. per 100 ml. were found in 23 percent of subjects and were probably mainly caused by iron deficiency. Supplementation of the diet with iron is desirable. A greater prevalence of anaemia in Middle Caicos was the only significant difference in nutrition status between the islands. (AU)