Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1:General Concepts. Pediatric nutrition: a distinct subspecialty
  • Clinical assessment of nutritional status
  • Laboratory assessment of nutritional status
  • Body composition and growth
  • Macronutrient requirements for growth: carbohydrates
  • Macronutrient requirements for growth: protein/amino acids
  • Micronutrient requirements for growth: fats and fatty acids
  • Trace elements
  • Iron
  • Vitamins
  • Dietary reference intakes
  • International nutrition
  • Protein-energy malnutrition: pathophysiology, clinical consequences, and treatment
  • Childhood malnutrition: prevention and control at the national level
  • Community nutrition and its impact on children: industrialized countries
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Food safety
  • Drug therapy and role of nutrition.
  • Part 2: Physiology and Pathophysiology. Nutrition and gene expression
  • Nutrition and humoral regulation of growth
  • Gastrointestinal development: implications for infant feeding
  • Immunophysiology and nutrition of the gut
  • Malnutrition and host defense
  • Neuropsychological development
  • Nutrition and the behavior of children.
  • Part 3: Perinatal Nutrition. Maternal nutrition and pregnancy outcome
  • Human growth and disease in later life
  • Development of the fetus: carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
  • Amino acid nutrition in utero: placental function and metabolism
  • Human milk: nutritional properties
  • Protective properties of human milk
  • Approach to breast-feeding
  • The low-birth-weight infant: inpatient care
  • Nutritional management of preterm infants postdischarge
  • The term infant
  • Complementary feeding.
  • Part 4. Obesity and Energy Balance. Energy metabolism and requirements in health and disease
  • Energy and substrate regulation in obesity
  • Evaluation and Management in obesity
  • Complications of obesity: metabolic syndrome
  • Popular diets for obesity.
  • Part 5: Nutritional Aspects of Specific Disease States. Feeding difficulties
  • Failure to thrive
  • Nutritional assessment of the hospitalized patient
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Inborn errors of fasting adaptation: glycogen storage
  • Inborn errors of metabolism and the liver
  • Persistent renal disease
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Pediatric HIV infection
  • Celiac disease
  • Food allergies
  • Exocrine pancreatic disease including cystic fibrosis
  • Acute and chronic liver disease
  • Cancer prevention
  • Cancer treatment
  • Diabetes Mellitis
  • Diarrheal diseases
  • Intestinal failure, short bowel syndrome, and intestinal transplantation
  • The critically ill child
  • Hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular disease risk
  • Carbohydrate absorption and malabsorption
  • Nutritional anemias
  • Function and nature of the components in the oral cavity
  • Adolescence: healthy and disordered eating
  • The adolescent athlete: performance-enhancing drugs and dietary supplements
  • Adolescence: bone disease.
  • Part 6 : Approach to Nutritional Support. Standard and specialized enteral formulas
  • Enteral nutrition
  • Parenteral nutrition
  • Dietary supplements and nutraceuticals
  • Special diets.