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Cohort Profile: The Kiang West Longitudinal Population Study (KWLPS)—a platform for integrated research and health care provision in rural Gambia Branwen J Hennig, Stefan A Unger, Bai Lamin Dondeh, Jahid Hassan, Sophie Hawkesworth, Landing Jarjou, Kerry S Jones, Sophie E Moore, Helen M Nabwera, Mohammed Ngum, Ann Prentice, Bakary Sonko, Andrew M Prentice* and Anthony J Fulford MRC International...

Widdowson, E. M., Crabb, D. E., and Milner, R. D. G. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 652. Cellular development of some human organs before birth. The total amount of DNA and the protein/DNA ratio have been measured in the kidneys, heart, liver, and gastrocnemius muscles of 56 human fetuses and newborn infants of 13-42 weeks' gestational age. The total amount of DNA in each organ a...

clinical data on 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A (pH1N1) from Lima, Peru Yeny Tinoco, Hugo Razuri, Ernesto J. Ortiz, Jorge Gomez, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Timothy Uyeki, Victor Alberto Laguna-Torres, Tadeusz J. Kochel, Robert H. Gilman, and Joel M. Montgomery, for the Peru Influenza Working Group* US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru. Peruvian Ministry of Health, Direccion Genera...

Widdowson, E. M., and McCance, R. A. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 547. Use of random specimens of urine to compare the dietary intakes of African and British Children. Specimens of urine were obtained during the forenoon from 45 Ugandan and 45 British boys and girls below 4 years of age who were attending clinics for healthy children. By employing known facts about the excretio...

Nutrition and hunger have social, psychological and physical connotations, all documented since the first written records. Among documents of our own time that draw attention to these connotations are: Sorokin's (1975) volume on starvation in post-revolutionary Russia; the SHAEF report on the famine in the Netherlands in the immediate aftermath of World War II (Burger et al. 1948); the observat...

Bone health is a critical concern in managing preterm infants. Key nutrients of importance are calcium, vitamin D, and phosphorus. Although human milk is critical for the health of preterm infants, it is low in these nutrients relative to the needs of the infants during growth. Strategies should be in place to fortify human milk for preterm infants with birth weight <1800 to 2000 g and to ensur...

I. Rats were given diets containing different fats (200 g/kg) from weaning to 8 months of age. The fats were sunflower-seed oil (SFO), lard (L) and an equal mixture of sunflower-seed oil and lard (mixed-fat diet; MF). A control group was given the basal diet unsupplemented with fat. Energy intake and bodyweight of individual animals were recorded weekly. 2. Three animals from each dietary group...

Bone health is a critical concern in managing preterm infants. Key nutrients of importance are calcium, vitamin D, and phosphorus. Although human milk is critical for the health of preterm infants, it is low in these nutrients relative to the needs of the infants during growth. Strategies should be in place to fortify human milk for preterm infants with birth weight <1800 to 2000 g and to ensur...

Since women do not begin to secrete milk freely till the third day after delivery, and no other food is available in nature for the baby, its life is maintained during the first two days after birth largely at the expense of its own tissues, and some destruction of body protein and fat is inevitable. The extent of this protein breakdown was measured by McCance and Strangeways (1954) in six norm...