Black and white adolescent females' pre-pregnancy nutrition status

Results indicated that black females ingested more energy, protein, calcium, and iron than did white females. Significant percentages of both black and white females' intakes of energy, calcium, and iron fell below recommended allowances, suggesting that most of those surveyed possessed poor pr...

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Published in:Adolescence 1994, Vol.29 (116), p.845-858
Main Authors: Sargent, R.G. (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.), Schulken, E.D, Kemper, K.A, Hussey, J.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent girls
Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Adolescents
African Americans
BESOIN NUTRITIONNEL
Biological and medical sciences
Blacks
Body Composition
BODY MASS INDEX
BODY WEIGHT
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dietetics
Eating Habits
ESTADO NUTRICIONAL
ETAT NUTRITIONNEL
European Continental Ancestry Group
Factors
Female
Females
Food
Food and nutrition
GESTACION
GESTATION
Grade 11
Health
Health aspects
Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology
Humans
Indexing in process
INGESTION DE NUTRIENTES
INGESTION DE SUBSTANCES NUTRITIVES
JEUNESSE
JUVENTUD
Medical sciences
NECESIDADES DE NUTRIENTES
NUTRIENT INTAKE
NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS
Nutrition
Nutrition Surveys
NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement
Outcomes
PESO
Physical Education
POIDS
PREGNANCY
Pregnancy in Adolescence
PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS
Prenatal Care
Primary Health Care
Racial differences
Secondary Education
Social research
Teenage girls
Teenage pregnancy
Teenagers
WEIGHT
Whites
Women
YOUTH
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Summary:Results indicated that black females ingested more energy, protein, calcium, and iron than did white females. Significant percentages of both black and white females' intakes of energy, calcium, and iron fell below recommended allowances, suggesting that most of those surveyed possessed poor prepregnancy nutritional status. (RJM)
ISSN:0001-8449