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Each chapter includes applications to other areas of health and disease; practical methods and techniques, summary points, and/or key features.
Everything you need to know about normal and abnormal growth in health and disease at the cellular, tissue, organ and whole-organism level.
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Table of contents (183 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Normative Features of Growth
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Front Matter
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Intrauterine Growth Retardation, Low and Very Low Birth Weight Full-Term Infants
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Abnormal growth
- Catch-up growth
- Cell growth
- Dietetics
- Disease and growth
- Endocine regulation of growth
- Exercise and growth
- Growth abnormality
- Growth canal
- Growth characteristics
- Growth curves
- Growth disorder
- Growth monitoring
- Growth spurt
- Human development
- Human growth
- Low birth weight
- Measurement of growth
- Normal growth
- Nutrition
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Nutrition & Dietetics, King's College, London, United Kingdom
Victor R. Preedy
About the editor
Victor R. Preedy is currently Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London and Honorary Professor of Clinical Biochemistry in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King's College Hospital. He is also Director of the Genomics Centre, Kings College London. He is presently a member of the School of Medicine, King’s College London. King’s College London is one of the leading universities, currently ranked consistently within the top 25 in the world. Professor Preedy gained his Ph.D. in 1981 and in 1992 he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath), based on his published works. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) in 2000. In 1993 he gained his second doctorial degree (DSc) for his outstanding contribution to protein metabolism. In 2004 Professor Preedy was elected as a Fellow to both the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (FRSH) and The Royal Institute of Public Health (FRIPHH). In 2009 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). He is also a Fellow of The Society of Biology (FSB). Professor Preedy has written or edited over 550 articles, which includes over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research and 85 reviews and 30 books. His interests pertain to matters concerning nutrition and health at the individual and societal levels.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease
Editors: Victor R. Preedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1795-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1794-2Published: 02 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4080-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1795-9Published: 03 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LVII, 3164
Topics: Maternal and Child Health, Clinical Nutrition, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Informatics