Title: Nutritional Status of Selected Adolescent Children
Abstract: The riboflavin and niacin nutriture was assessed for 248 fifteen and sixteen year old native-born and -reared Washington boys and girls in two counties within the state, Snohomish County and Yakima County. Five methods of assessment were used: dietary intake, serum blood level, observation of selected tissues with the biomicroscope, evaluation of colored photographs of these same tissues and physical examination. Compared with current standards the intake of riboflavin was good. The boys consumed 118 per cent and the girls 96 per cent of the National Research Council Recommended allowances. A significant difference was found between the sexes for riboflavin intake, the boys consuming more riboflavin than the girls. The intake of niacin by these subjects was good. The mean intakes for the Snohomish boys and girls were 19 and 13.1 mg., respectively, and 18.1 and 13 mg. for the Yakima boys and girls. As for the riboflavin intake, a significant difference was noted between the niacin intake of the boys and girls. Compared with current standards 20 the serum riboflavin levels indicated that these Washington subjects were in a poor to fair state of nutrition. A significant difference existed between the sexes for free riboflavin but not for total riboflavin. The biomicroscopic observations of the vascular proliferation into the cornea and of the lesions of the tongue indicated a slight deficiency of both riboflavin and niacin. Evaluation of kodachrome slides of the tongue indicated a fair status of niacin nutrition. Little evidence of riboflavin or niacin undernutrition was noted on physical examinations of selected tissues. Simple correlation coefficients were calculated in an effort to establish a relationship between dietary intake, fasting blood serum level and subclinical signs of a deficiency of riboflavin and niacin. Few significant correlations were found except for the hypertrophy of the papillae evaluated biomicroscopically with hypertrophy of the papillae evaluated from colored slides. This was significant for both the Snohomish subjects and the Yakima subjects. A number of correlations were calculated for dietary riboflavin; free and total serum riboflavin; dietary niacin and other dietary constituents; other serum constituents; and the dental examination results. Most of these correlations were not significant except for the boys in Yakima County. Although the dietary intake of riboflavin and niacin could be described as adequate, the other indices used here indicated a fair status of nutrition of these nutrients for Washington adolescent subjects.
Publication Year: 1962
Publication Date: 1962-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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