Nutritional modulation of growth and maturation and the development of specific age-related diseases : secondary analysis of NHANES II
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Laurence Buck Levin (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Lucille Wakefield
Abstract: Four age-related subsamples were selected from the Second National Health and Examination Survey (NHANES II) in order to test hypotheses involving relationships between dietary intake, method of infant feeding, rate of growth and maturation, and incidence of later life disease. Relationships between variables of interest were first placed within a comprehensive conceptual framework linking overnutrition during infancy and childhood to accelerated growth, accelerated sexual maturation, and increased incidence of later life disease. Six hypotheses were tested in order to explore key implications of this conceptual framework. Hypotheses were grouped within three areas of analysis: (a) nutrition and growth, (b) nutrition, growth, and sexual maturation, and (c) growth, maturation, and age-related disease.
Nutritional modulation of growth and maturation and the development of specific age-related diseases : secondary analysis of NHANES II
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1987
- Subjects
- Nutrition
- Sex (Biology) $x Nutritional aspects
- Age factors in disease