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Nutrition During Pregnancy Part I: Weight Gain, Part II: Nutrient Supplements (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 443-448

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From page 443...
... Bioavailability proportion of a nutrient absorbed from food and available for physiologic function. Body mass index (B MI)
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From page 444...
... Factorial approach a method for estimating nutrient requirements by summing the estimated amounts of nutrient required for each of several purposes, e.g., replacement of endogenous loss and growth. Fetal alcohol syndrome a syndrome related to alcohol use during pregnancy and characterized by prenatal or postnatal growth retardation, distinct facial anomalies, and mental deficiency.
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... Normal gestational durations average approximately 280 days. Gestational weight gain weight gained between conception and delivery.
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... Nonessential amino acids amino acids with essential functions that can be synthesized by humans if suitable sources of carbon, nitrogen, and energy are available. Odds ratio the ratio of the odds of a condition occurring in exposed individuals compared with the odds in unexposed persons; generally used as an approximation of the relative risk Optimally grown infants defined in this report as an infant born at week 39 to 41 of gestation with a birth weight between 3,000 and 4,000 grams.
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... Stadiometer a device for measuring height. Static measurements of nutritional status determination of overt signs of clinical deficiency and of nutrient or metabolite levels in blood or tissues.
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  • weight gain
  • nutritional status
  • growth retardation
  • weight infant

  • infant birth
  • gestational age
  • monozygotic twins
  • nonessential amino
  • reference population

  • intrauterine growth
  • gestational weight
  • twentieth week
  • essential functions
  • nutrient requirements

  • low birth
  • acids amino
  • age usually
  • weight gained
  • estimating nutrient

  • neural tube
  • usually defined
  • tube defect
  • defect born
  • usually expressed

  • condition occurring
  • overt signs
  • total gestational
  • includes maternal
  • infants defined


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