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Springer Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease 1st Editon 2016 Softbound by Victor R. Preedy
Growth is one of the human body’s most intricate processes: each body part or region has its own unique growth patterns. Yet at the individual and population levels, growth patterns are sensitive to adverse conditions, genetic predispositions, and environmental changes. And despite the body’s capacity to compensate for these developmental setbacks, the effects may be far-reaching, even life-long. The Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease brings this significant and complex field together in one comprehensive volume: impact of adverse variables on growth patterns; issues at different stages of prenatal development, childhood, and adolescence; aspects of catch-up growth, endocrine regulation, and sexual maturation; screening and assessment methods; and international perspectives. Tables and diagrams, applications to other areas of health and disease, and summary points help make the information easier to retain. Together, these 140 self-contained chapters in 15 sections [ok?] cover every area of human growth, including:Intrauterine growth retardation.Postnatal growth in normal and abnormal situations.Cells and growth of tissues.Sensory growth and development.Effects of disease on growth.Methods and standards for assessment of growth, and more. The Handbook of Growth and Growth Monitoring in Health and Disease is an invaluable addition to the reference libraries of a wide range of health professionals, among them health scientists, physicians, physiologists, nutritionists, dieticians, nurses, public health researchers, epidemiologists, exercise physiologists, and physical therapists. It is also useful to college-level students and faculty in the health disciplines, and to policymakers and health economists. SECTION 1. Low and very low birth weight infants.- 1. Development of thyroid function in very low birth weight infants.- 2. Growth after very low birth weights: Germany perspectives.- 3. First trimester fetal growth and low birth weight.- 4. Following up very low birth weight children to preschool age.- 5. Zinc and low birth weight.- 6. Early nutrition and very low birth weights infants.- 7. Aggressive nutritional strategy in very low birth weight infants: impact on growth.- 8. Visual development in very low birth weight infants.- 9. Visual ability in very low birth weight infants.- 10. Parental relationships with very low birth weight infants.- SECTION 2. Intrauterine growth retardation.- 11. Intrauterine growth standards.- 12. Risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries: role of interuterine growth retardation .- 13. Growth outcomes in intrauterine growth retardation: Australian perspectives.- 14. Neurodevelopment outcome of children with intrauterine growth retardation: A longitudinal, 10-year prospective study.- 15. Memory functions of children with intrauterine growth restriction.- 16. Intrauterine growth and intelligence.- 17. Drug exposure and intrauterine growth .-18. Intrauterine growth retardation and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children.- 19. Ultrasound brain lesions in intrauterine growth retardation .- 20. Intrauterine growth restriction and blood pressure.- 21. Treatment for Short stature after intrauterine growth retardation.- 22. Anthropometric parameters and intrauterine growth retardation: Togo perspectives .- SECTION 3. Preterm infants.- 23. Periodic breathing in term and preterm infants.- 24. The relationship between growth and perinatal factors in preterm infants.- 25. Growth curves for preterm infants.- 26. Development of oral feeding skills in the preterm infant.- 27. Growth factors and endocrine milieu in preterm and term infants.- 28. Protein metabolism in preterm infants: implications for growth.- 29. Birth weight standards, fetal growth, and preterm infants.- 30. Maturation and growth indices of the brain in preterm infants.- 31. The development of cerebral cortex in prematurely born infants.- 32. Development of motor coordination and attention in preterm infants and relation to intensive care.- 33. Inflammatory and growth mediators in the blood in preterm infants.- 34. Weight gain and linear growth in milk feeding in preterm infants.- 35. Brain volume in preterm infants.- 36. Impact of prematurity on school-age outcomes.- 37. Visual and visuocognitive development in children born very prematurely.- SECTION 4. Postnatal growth in normal and abnormal situations.- 38. Defects on long arm of chromosome 20 and postnatal growth retardation.- 39. Postnatal growth in HIV.- 40. Postnatal growth failure and Z score.- 41. Prediction of postnatal growth curves for premature infants.- 42. Adiposity during preweaning postnatal growth.- 43. Postnatal development in cleft palate.- 44. Blood pressure and postnatal growth in schoolchildren: World and Mexico perspectives.- 45. Hormonal regulation of postnatal growth in children.- 46. Postnatal growth and growth hormone.- 47. Postnatal weight increase and growth velocity of very low birth weight infants: Italian perspectives.- SECTION 5. Catch-up growth.- 48. Weight requirements for Catch-up growth in girls with eating disorders.- 49. Catch-up growth and corticosteroids.- 50. Thyroid function during Catch-up growth.- 51. Endocrine aspects of catch-up growth.- 52. Catch-up growth: Hertfordshire studies.- 53. Catch-up growth up to ten year olds: Dutch perspectives .- 54. Catch-up growth and supine length/height in preterm infants.- 55. Catch-down growth and short-statured parents.- 56. Adiposity and insulin resistance after catch-up growth.- 57. Catch-up and