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close this bookCauses and Mechanisms of Linear Growth Retardation (International Dietary Energy Consultative Group - IDECG, 1993, 216 pages)
close this folderRelationship of gain in height to gain in weight
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Branca F, Robins SP, Ferro-Luzzi A & Golden MHN (1992): Bone turnover in malnourished children. Lancet 340, 1493-1496.

Walker SP & Golden MHN (1988): Growth in length of children recovering from severe protein-energy malnutrition. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 42, 395-404.

Waterlow JC (1990): Energy-sparing mechanisms: reductions in body mass, BMR and activity: their relative importance and priority in undernourished infants and children. In Activity, energy expenditure and energy requirements of infants and children, eds B Schürch & NS Scrimshaw, pp. 239-251. Lausanne: IDECG/Nestlé Foundation.