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@Brianna17

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Identify the measures that are commonly taken to assess the nutrition status of pregnant women.

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Surveys are most likely to be ____.
 a. inexpensive to conduct
 b. used to reverse disease progression
  c. analyzed on an individual level
 d. qualitative in nature


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Reply #1 on: Aug 21, 2018
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a . Dietary measures: diet history, including food habits, attitudes, and folklore; allergies; use of vitamin and mineral supplements; and lifestyles (e.g., substance use or existence of pica).
b. Clinical measures: obstetric history, including outcome of previous pregnancies, interval between pregnancies, and history of problems during the course of previous pregnancies (e.g., PIH, gestational diabetes, iron-deficiency anemia, or pattern of inadequate or excessive weight gain).
c. Anthropometric measures: measurement of weight-for-height or body mass index (BMI).Laboratory values: screening for anemia by hematocrit and/or hemoglobin and a urine analysis for ketones, glucose, and protein spillage.

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