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Laboratory assessment of nutrition in infants and children
Clinical Biochemistry, Vol. 29, No. 5, p. 397, 1996 Copyright © 1996 The Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0009-9120/96 $15.00 + .00 ELSEVIER
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Laboratory Assessment of Nutrition in Infants and Children " | aboratory Assessment of Nutrition in Infants l_Aand Children" was the focus of the Symposium which opened the Sixth International Congress on Pediatric Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, July 21-24 1995. Eight international experts presented comprehensive reviews in two stimulating sessions. Dr. Brian Wharton, Director of the Nutrition Foundation in Britain opened the symposium by describing how genetic endowment modulated by environmental influences results in distinctive nutritional and metabolic characteristics at different developmental stages in :infancy. Dr. Stanley Zlotkin of the University of Toronto reviewed the assessment of nutritional status in newborns and infants. This was followed by a comprehensive review of the effect of various disease processes on the nutritional requirements of preterm infants. Dr. William Hay of the University of Colorado emphasized the extremely important need to determine appropriate nutritional quantity and quality for extremely and very low birth weight :infants. Key factors in the assessment of nutritional metabolic bone disease in the infant were discussed by Dr. Winston Koo of
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Wayne State University, who closed the morning session with a critical review of the use of new biochemical and non-invasive tests in the infant. Dr. Bo Lonnerdal opened the afternoon session with a discussion on breast milk as the perfect food and assessing the infant and mother in lactation disorders. Dr. James Cook of the University of Kansas reviewed the assessment of iron deficiency and excess in children. Dr. Victor Herbert of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine described the assessment of the efficacy and safety of unusual dietary practices. Dr. Leena Salmenpera of the University of Helsinki closed the Symposium with a discussion on detecting subclinical deficiency of essential trace elements in children, emphasizing zinc and selenium. In these Congress Proceedings we publish three of the papers from this symposium as comprehensive reviews. We gratefully acknowledge the support of academic and commercial sponsors which enabled us to organize a successful International Congress.
Gillian Lockitch Vancouver, Canada Guest Editor
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0009-9120(96)00112-9
Laboratory Assessment of Nutrition in Infants and Children " | aboratory Assessment of Nutrition in Infants l_Aand Children" was the focus of the Symposium which opened the Sixth International Congress on Pediatric Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, July 21-24 1995. Eight international experts presented comprehensive reviews in two stimulating sessions. Dr. Brian Wharton, Director of the Nutrition Foundation in Britain opened the symposium by describing how genetic endowment modulated by environmental influences results in distinctive nutritional and metabolic characteristics at different developmental stages in :infancy. Dr. Stanley Zlotkin of the University of Toronto reviewed the assessment of nutritional status in newborns and infants. This was followed by a comprehensive review of the effect of various disease processes on the nutritional requirements of preterm infants. Dr. William Hay of the University of Colorado emphasized the extremely important need to determine appropriate nutritional quantity and quality for extremely and very low birth weight :infants. Key factors in the assessment of nutritional metabolic bone disease in the infant were discussed by Dr. Winston Koo of
C L I N I C A L B I O C H E M I S T R Y , V O L U M E 29, O C T O B E R 1996
Wayne State University, who closed the morning session with a critical review of the use of new biochemical and non-invasive tests in the infant. Dr. Bo Lonnerdal opened the afternoon session with a discussion on breast milk as the perfect food and assessing the infant and mother in lactation disorders. Dr. James Cook of the University of Kansas reviewed the assessment of iron deficiency and excess in children. Dr. Victor Herbert of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine described the assessment of the efficacy and safety of unusual dietary practices. Dr. Leena Salmenpera of the University of Helsinki closed the Symposium with a discussion on detecting subclinical deficiency of essential trace elements in children, emphasizing zinc and selenium. In these Congress Proceedings we publish three of the papers from this symposium as comprehensive reviews. We gratefully acknowledge the support of academic and commercial sponsors which enabled us to organize a successful International Congress.
Gillian Lockitch Vancouver, Canada Guest Editor
397