Effect of Environment on Nutritional Status

Behar, Moisés; Scrimshaw, Nevin S.

doi:10.1080/00039896.1962.10663281

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“…Scrimshaw's participation in a symposium on protein requirements stressed the extent to which they were increased by infections [40]. Concurrently, Béhar [43], Béhar and Scrimshaw [44,45], and Scrimshaw, Wilson, and Bressani [46] emphasized the role of infection in proteincalorie malnutrition.…”

Section: Nutrition and Infectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

INCAP Studies of Nutrition and Infection

Scrimshaw

2010

Food Nutr Bull

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As soon as the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) began to study the poor nutritional status and stunting of children in the rural villages of Central America, it was apparent that infections, particularly diarrheas, were also a serious problem. Studies of kwashiorkor indicated that infections precipitated kwashiorkor and anemia in children who were already malnourished. In the 1940s there was almost no suggestion in the literature of a relation between nutrition and infection. INCAP gradually identified the mechanisms by which any infection worsens nutritional status and demonstrated that infections were more severe and more often fatal in malnourished children and adults. These studies ultimately led to the 1968 World Health Organization (WHO) monograph "Interactions of nutrition and infection" and widespread recognition by public health workers of the importance of this relationship for morbidity and mortality in poorly nourished populations.

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Section: Nutrition and Infectionmentioning

confidence: 99%