Table Of ContentBiochemical Parameters
and the Nutritional
Status of Children
Biochemical Parameters
and the Nutritional
Status of Children
Novel Tools for Assessment
Anil Gupta, PhD
Dean of Research
Desh Bhagat University
and
Professor and Head
Department of Physiology and Biochemistry
Desh Bhagat Dental College and Hospital
Mandi Gobindgarh
Punjab, India
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Names: Gupta, Anil (Child nutrition scientist), author.
Title: Biochemical parameters and the nutritional status of children:
novel tools for assessment / by Anil Gupta.
Description: First edition. | Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary: “Biochemical parameters represent better, precise, and objective tools toward
the assessment of nutritional status of children in comparison to anthropometric,
clinical, and dietary methods. They constitute laboratory tests to estimate the
concentration of circulating nutrients in the body fluids” – Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020006248 (print) | LCCN 2020006249 (ebook) |
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Subjects: MESH: Nutritional Status | Child | Child Nutrition
Disorders–diagnosis | Clinical Laboratory Techniques
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SHRI SHIRDI SAI BABA
Contents
Preface, ix
Acknowledgments, xi
About the Author, xiii
Chapter 1 ◾ Concept of Nutrition 1
Chapter 2 ◾ Biochemical Parameters and
Protein-Energy Malnutrition 35
Chapter 3 ◾ Biochemical Parameters and
Childhood Obesity 47
Chapter 4 ◾ Biochemical Parameters and
Childhood Nutritional Anemia 55
Chapter 5 ◾ Biochemical Parameters: Childhood
Diarrhea and Malabsorption Syndrome 73
INDEX, 81
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Preface
Biochemical parameters represent superior, precise, and
objective tools toward the assessment of nutritional status of
children in comparison to anthropometric, clinical, and dietary
methods. Biochemical parameters estimate the nutrients in the
body through laboratory methods and should be interpreted in
conformity with the other methods of assessment of the nutri-
tional status of children. Biochemical parameters are suggestive of
acute or subclinical conditions when the other methods of nutri-
tional assessment fail to interpret the condition.
These parameters constitute laboratory tests to estimate the con-
centration of circulating nutrients in body fluids, while the other
tests explore the concentration of enzymes in the body tissues,
representing the metabolic changes. Biochemical parameters
exhibit substantial variability in their reproducibility. Moreover,
these parameters are novel tools in the hands of clinicians for the
screening of the nutritional status of children.
This book provides useful information about the role of bio-
chemical parameters in assessing the nutritional status of children.
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