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SOME PRINCIPLES IN INVESTIGATION AND INTERPRETATION OF METABOLIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE NEW‐BORN
Author(s) -
STEVENS L. H.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1965.14.2.146
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , homogeneous , metabolic control analysis , medicine , pediatrics , psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , mathematics , endocrinology , combinatorics , insulin , programming language
Summary There are many drawbacks to investigation and interpretation of metabolic behaviour in the new‐born. Apart from technical difficulties, control of observation is often unsatisfactory. Moreover, the measurement of a response in a group of babies, all on the same day after birth, does not necessarily result in a homogeneous grouping of data Averaging of heterogeneous data invites misleading conclusions. Evidence is discussed that suggests that birth rarely, if ever, is entirely free of influences that injure the child. The metabolic aftermath of these events is examined and compared with the responses of the injured adult. Certain implications of the pattern of early post‐natal clinical and metabolic behaviour being partly a result of perinatal injury are considered.