Principles of Nutritional Assessment

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This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. The second edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments since 1990.

• Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand
• Format: Hardback | 928 pages
• Dimensions: 180mm x 249mm x 41mm | 1,701g
• Publication date: 19 May 2005
• Publication City/Country: Melbourne
• ISBN 10: 0195171691
• ISBN 13: 9780195171693