Effect of undernutrition in early life on physical and mental development.

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1 October 1965

journal article
research article
Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood

Vol. 40 (213), 532-534
https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.40.213.532

Abstract

Serbian children who had been seriously undernourished in infancy were found at school-age to have normal physical characteristics but subnormal mental capacity.

Keywords

MENTAL RETARDATION
HEIGHT
GROWTH
MALNUTRITION
UNDERNUTRITION
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
INTELLIGENCE
WEIGHT

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:

Does Undernutrition During Infancy Inhibit Brain Growth and Subsequent Intellectual Development?
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1963
Severe undernutrition in growing and adult animals
British Journal of Nutrition, 1961
Protein Malnutrition in Man
Advances in protein chemistry, 1961

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