Malnutrition Fetus

Risk factors for deficiency Pregnancy (neural tube defects in fetus may result) Alcoholism Severe malnutrition Risk fiictors for deficiency Pernicious anemia Gastric resection Chronic pancreatitis Severe malnutrition Vegan Infection with D. latum... 

We needed to keep careful track of the development of the 134 survivors for comparison with those exposed while fetuses. At that time we had not yet confirmed that the risk of radiation damage is even greater for the fetus than for children after birth. Nor had we devised research techniques that would allow us to differentiate between defects caused by radiation of the fetus and defects caused by the trauma of the bomb or such other factors as infection and the malnutrition prevalent in Japan during and immediately after the war. 

Competent pediatricians feel that the decrease of neonatal death is still too slow, and that many fetal and neonatal deaths and incurable damage to infants result from inadequate nutrition. Experiments in animals have clearly established that malnutrition of the mother results in congenital malformation, death of the fetus, or premature delivery. Obviously, no deliberate experiments have been made in humans that... 

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