Protein-energy Malnutrition

Professor Waterlow provides, for the first time in one volume, a critical and up-to-date review of all the many facets of the problem of protein-energy malnutrition. This comprehensive coverage begins with an analysis of the characteristics of severe and fatal cases and a detailed discussionof treatment, aimed specifically at paediatricians. It goes on to describe and analyse the features of malnutrition as it develops in the community: impaired growth, frequent infections and retardation of mental development, and ends with an examination of controversial questions of strategy andtactics for prevention.