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Mann & Truswell: Essentials of Human Nutrition 3e

Chapter 18

Further reading

Five major books have been written (in English) on PEM of children, the first in 1954. The three most recent are those by Alleyne et al. (1977), Suskin and Lewinter-Susking (1990), and Waterlow (1992).

  1. Alleyne, G.A.O., Hay, R.W., Picou, D.I., Stanfield, J.P., and Whitehead, R.G. (1977) Protein-energy malnutrition. London, Edward Arnold.

  2. Bhan, M.K., Bhandari, N., and Bahl, R. (2003) Management of the severely malnourished child: perspective from developing countries. Br Med J, 326, 146-51. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7381.146]

  3. Ciliberto, J.H., Ciliberto, M., Briend, A., Ashorn, P., Bier, D., and Manary, M. (2005) Antioxidant supplementation for the prevention of kwashiorkor in Malawian children: randomized, doubled blind, placebo controlled trial. Br Med J, 330, 1109-11. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38427.404259.8F]

  4. Suskind, R.M., and Lewinter-Suskind, L. (1990) The malnourished child. New York, Raven Press.

  5. Torún, B. (2005) Protein-energy malnutrition. In: Shils, M.E., Shike, M., Ross, A.C., Caballero, B., and Cousins, R.J. (eds) Modern nutrition in health and disease, 10th edition. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, pp. 881-908.

  6. Waterlow, J.C. (1992) Protein-energy malnutrition, London, Edward Arnold.

  7. Whitehead, R.G., Coward, W.A., Lunn, P.G., et al. (1977) A comparison of the pathogenesis of protein energy malnutrition in Uganda and the Gambia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 71, 189-95. [DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203%2877%2990004-9]

  8. WHO (1991) Management of severe malnutrition: a manual for physicians and other senior health workers. Geneva, World Health Organization.

  9. WHO (2004) United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition. Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation. Geneva, World Health Organization.