Ceylon Journal of Medical Science
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Item Auxology of Sri Lankan children age 5 to 18 years 3.. sitting height and sub-ischial leg length(SLMA. Colombo, 1990) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Amarasinghe, S.Sitting height (SH), leg length (LL) and the rati, SH/TH have been studied in 9070 school children between 5 and 18 years, SH and LL are not influenced by ethnicity. SH, LL and the overall increment in LL are socio-economic dependent during pre-adolescence. LL velocity is greater than SH velocity during pre-adolescence , so that LL catches up with SH before puberty, which occurs earlier in children of a higher socio-economic status. Children who become tall are those with a high LL velocity during pre-adolescence and a high SH velosity after puberty. Neither poverty nor ethnicity have any influence on the relative propotion of SH to stature.Item Sri Lanka nutritional status survey, 1988/89(SLMA. Colombo, 1990) Ratnayake, R.M.K.; Weerasinghe, S.Item Menarcheal age and nutritional status of Sri Lankan girls(SLMA. Colombo, 1990) Balasuriya, S.The mean age at menarche based on recall data of a sample of 303 girls was 13,83 years. This mean was 0.6 years higher than the mean of 13.2 years observed among Kandy urban children of a slightly higher socio-economic status. It was found that the nutritionally poor girls are at a disadvantage and reach menarche about 0.5 years later than the nutritionally good.Item The prevalence and aetiology of infertility in Sri Lanka(The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1995) De Silva, W.I.Item Dietary intake and the prevalence of goitre among pregnant women on the Southwestern of Sri Lanka(The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1994) Hjelle, A.K.; Neggers, Y.H.; Wickramanayake, T.W.; Bindon, R.Item Preliminary report on the fourth national nutrition and health survey July - August, 1995(Faculty of Medicine. Colombo, 1997) Ramanujam, P.; Nestel, P.Item Pattern of health care use in an elderly population in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Medicine. Colombo, 1997) Fernando, D.N.; Seneviratne, R. De A.With changing demographic pattern, provision of health care services for the elderly will be a problem that Sri Lanka has to face in the near future. Community based data related to morbility, health care use and service needs to useful in planning for such services. A study of 1200 persons of age 60 years and over, conducted in the western province in Sri Lanka indicate a high level of use medical care as well as perceived need for addtional care and for health aids. Financial constraints were identified as the main factor limiting health care use. This is of importance in planning programs in countries where resources available for provision of care are limited and where alternative approaches for provision and financing of health care needs to be considered.Item Factors influencing the age at natural menopause in Sinhalese women(The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1994) Jayasekara, R.Item The iron status of parturient mothers and their new born babies(Faculty of Medicine. Colombo, 1996) Goonewardena, I.M.R.; Liyanage, C.To evaluate the iron status of women in labour. To evaluate the iron status in the neonates of these subjects. To study the correlation between the iron status of these subjects and in their new born babies.Item Combating iron defifiency 3.. wheat consumption patterns in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Medicine. Colombo, 1996) Piyasena, C.; Mudalige, R.; Nestel, P.