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A Nondasuta

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PubMed1988

Nutrition studies in Thailand: effects of calories, nutrient supplements, and health interventions on growth of preschool Thai village children.

A study of the effects of providing high-calorie and vitamin-mineral supplements to preschool village children retarded in growth and development in Chiang Mai, Thailand was done. The preschool children of 24 villages with a population of approximately 11,000 were divided into five control and intervention groups. The interventions consisted of a village health program, high-calorie snacks, and vitamin-mineral supplements. The supplements when used were provided in day care centers for preschool children. The health and nutrition interventions used did not significantly affect growth during the study period reported from December 1981 to October 1983. Monthly changes in length and weight observed in this and a previous study indicate that growth patterns in Thai children are different from those seen in industrialized societies. Factors other than lack of nutrients and infection may be responsible for the inadequate growth often reported in developing countries.

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PubMed1985

Subcutaneous fat remodelling in Southeast Asian infants and children.

Longitudinal data on 1,048 Thai children were evaluated for evidence of subcutaneous fat remodelling. Fat distribution, as defined by 100 (triceps/[triceps + subscapular]), was more pronounced in the limbs during infancy but shifted toward the trunk thereafter. Subsequent stepwise regression analysis indicated that biological age--as measured by Gruelich-Pyle bone age--and weight together explained between 0.8% and 14.5% of variance in fat distribution, with generally larger R2 values over age and for males. Relationships were curvilinear, with sex differences in slope. Path analysis supported the model that weight was a major causal agent primarily after infancy, whereas biological age had a small influence both in infancy and in late childhood. These findings indicate that trunk fat deposition is a normal feature of childhood. They also suggest that hypotheses which associate elevated trunk fatness with disorders of glucose metabolism are invalid for younger children.

Adipose Tissue↗
PubMed1975

Structural identification of haemoglobin E in a group of Thai subjects.

Among 1052 women from Northern Thailand whose bloods were examined for haemoglobin variants by starch gel electrophoresis, 84 (8.0 per cent) had variant with the doubly-slow mobility associated with Haemoglobin E. Seventy-nine of those slow variants were examined by chemical structure studies and all were confirmed to have the change, beta26 Glu leads to Lys, associated with Haemoglobin E. These results indicate that other variants with mobilities like that of Haemoglobin E are uncommon in Thairs.

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