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Nutritional Deficiencies as Developmental Risk Factors |
This chapter focuses on two (i.e., protein and energy malnutrition and iron deficiency anemia) of the four most prevalent nutritional deficiencies in the world and their putative effects on cognitive development in infants and children. The justification for an assessment of the role of these nutritional deficiencies as risk factors in development stems from their epidemiology and from the part they play in brain growth and function.
Iodine and vitamin A deficiencies are not discussed here. The severe effect of iodine deficiency on brain growth and function has been documented; cretinism, a form of severe mental ...
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