Paul Gyorgy ¹, Rajammal P. Devadas ², Usha Chandrashekar ²

Affiliations
1 School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, US
2 Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College for Women, Coimbatore-641011, IN

Abstract

Malnutrition has been an important problem at the start of academic scientific paediatrics during the second half of the 19th and throughout the 20th centuries. At first it was fairly common even in the western countries. During the last 30 to 40 years, it has been the leading paediatric problem among infants and pre-school children and even adolescents.

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