Journal of Nutrition Vol. 51 No. 4 December 1953, pp. 565-597
Copyright © 1953 by American Society for Nutrition
The Vanderbilt Cooperative Study of Maternal and Infant Nutrition1
IV. Dietary, Laboratory and Physical Findings in 2,129 Delivered Pregnancies
Five Figures
William J. Darby,
William J. McGanity,
Margaret P. Martin,
Edwin Bridgforth,
Paul M. Densen,
Margaret M. Kaser,
Pauline Jones Ogle,
Josephine Abernathy Newbill,
Anne Stockell,
Mary Ellen Ferguson,
Oscar Touster,
G. Sydney McClellan,
Claiborne Williams and
Richard O. Cannon
Division of Nutrition of the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine, and the Departments of Preventive Medicine and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Tennessee-Vanderbilt Nutrition Project, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
The nutritional characteristics revealed by records of dietary intake, laboratory assessments and physical examinations are described for an unselected group of 2,129 pregnant white women.
These findings are discussed in relation to the altered physiology of pregnancy.
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.