As protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) develops, the protein content of the body falls, despite the many mechanisms which operate to limit the further loss of nitrogen from the body (Waterlow, 1968). Studies of the composition of children dying of PCM have shown that in both kwashiorkor and marasmus there is a reduction in total body protein to about two-thirds of the normal amount for a child o...

Oedema and expansion of the extracellular fluid are well recognized as a complication of malnutrition in adults (McCance, 1951) as well as in children (Waterlow, Cravioto, and Stephen, 1960). An increase in total body water has also been described (Srikantia and Gopalan, 1957; Schnieden, Hendrickse, and Haigh, 1958; Smith, 1960). In the course of investigations on the renal function of malnouri...

46. Stewart R.J.C., Shephard H.G., Preece R.F. and Waterlow J.C.: The effect of rehabilitation at different stages of development of rats marginally malnourished for ten to twelve generations, Br J. Nutr, 403-412,1980 Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and coronary heart disease (CHD) are important non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in developed as well as developing countries. Migrant South Asians ...

Aims: To identify risk assessment scales for pressure ulcers that have been used in critical care units. Determine which of them have been validated according to validity, predictive capacity and reliability criteria, developing, where possible, aggregate indicators. Methods: Systematic review of the clinical literature with meta-analysis. The main international health science databases were se...

In Jamaica infantile malnutrition is most serious among children about 1 year old. The clinical picture may be of the marasmic or the kwashiorkor type, and intermediate forms often occur (1). Waterlow (2) suggested that the essential result of malnutrition was to produce protein depletion in the child, and many attempts have been made to measure the extent of this depletion. Chemical analysis o...

SUMMARY In the present study nutritional status of 600 children of 553 women (who at least had one 0-36 months old child) attending the 5 health centers in Zabol city during September to October 1988 were assesse d acording to different nutritional classifications. On the basis of Gomez (Expected Weight for age= EW/ age) and Waterlow (Heigh t for age=H/age and Expecte d Weight  for Height =EW...