The amount of energy needed for someone to perform their normal bodily function.
What is basal metabolic rate?
100
Use of this clinical reference tool enables physicians to diagnose failure to thrive in newborns and children age 0-24 months.
What is a growth chart?
200
The measure of the effect of a food on postprandial blood glucose levels.
What is glycemic index?
200
This psychosocial risk factor for failure to thrive may describe a low socieoconomic status, poor living conditions, and reduced access to food.
What is poverty?
300
Pregnant women require increased amounts of this vitamin, a deficiency of which would lead to poor neural tube development.
What is folate?
300
Malabsorption/diarrhea in this disease (multiple answers) may result in failure to thrive in newborns or children.
What is celiac's disease, IBD, pancreatic insufficiency (cystic fibrosis)?
400
This vitamin deficiency is the leading cause of preventable brain damage.
What is iodine deficiency?
400
This organic cause of failure to thrive physically/anatomically limits feeding (multiple answers).
What is a cleft palate, problem with swallowing (oro-motor dysfunction)?
500
Golden rice, a genetically engineered rice plant, charactized by its golden yellow color, was created specifically to combat this deficiency in southeast Asia.
What is vitamin A deficiency?
500
Before the physicial examination, carefully performing this clinical intake procedure provides critical information about the patient.
What is a patient history (or a nutritional history)?