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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 51 No. 4 December 1953, pp. 539-563
Copyright © 1953 by American Society for Nutrition
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The Vanderbilt Cooperative Study of Maternal and Infant Nutrition1

I. Background. II. Methods. III. Description of the Sample and Data

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William J. Darby, Paul M. Densen, Richard O. Cannon, Edwin Bridgforth, Margaret P. Martin, Margaret M. Kaser, Cyril Peterson, Amos Christie, William W. Frye, Katherine Justus, G. Sydney McClellan, Claiborne Williams, Pauline Jones Ogle, Paul F. Hahn, C. W. Sheppard, Ella Lee Carothers and Josephine Abernathy Newbill

Division of Nutrition of the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, and the Departments of Preventive Medicine, of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and of Pediatrics, and the Tennessee-Vanderbilt Nutrition Project, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

The background, design, methodology and population sample of a study of nutrition in pregnancy are described. This study embraced 2,338 pregnant white women cared for in the prenatal clinic of Vanderbilt University Hospital during the period from September, 1945, to February, 1949.

The limited available data on nutritional assessments of pregnant or lactating women within the general population of the region are summarized.

1 Financial assistance which has made possible this program has been generously provided by grants from the following organizations: The Nutrition Foundation, the International Health Division of The Rockefeller Foundation, the U. S. Public Health Service [RG-278 through RG-A-4(C6)], the Tennessee Department of Public Health, and Distillation Products, Inc.

Manuscript received 10 August 1953.




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