• Estudio de Puriscal I. Bases filosóficas, desarrollo y estado actual de la investigación actual de la investigación aplicada en nutrición 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2):1-20, 1982)
      No obstante los importantes avances que Costa Rica ha logrado en el campo de la salud materno—infantil, esta sigue siendo prioritaria pare la investigación científica. Al consolidarse la profilaxis de las enfermedades ...
    • Estudio de Puriscal IX. Estado nutricional y supervivencia del niño lactante 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Castro, Bernardo; Vives Blanco, Marcela; García, María Eugenia; Jiménez, Patricia; Jiménez, Sandra; Sánchez, Francisco (Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños, 17(1 y 2): 117-139, 1982)
      There is no evidence of malnutrition in the Canton of Puriscal as revealed by careful prospective study of all children born from September 19 of 1979 onwards. Several factors may account for this remarkable situation. ...
    • ¿Existe un efecto nutricional en el Centro de Educación y Nutrición (CEN) de Costa Rica? 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Murillo González, Sandra (Revista Medica Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 59-70. 1980, 1980)
      In order to assess the nutritional impact of the Centres of Education and Nutrition (CEN) funded by the Social Development Program and Assignments Relatives five CEN Puriscal region were selected, where Institute of ...
    • Factor aglutinante de Rotavirus en calostro en mujeres costarricenses 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Hernández Chavarría, Francisco (Rev. Méd. Hosp. Nal. Niño113(1): 45·52, 1978, 1978)
      Estudios prospectivos en una comunidad indígena de Guatemala demostraron la baja prevalencia de enfermedades infecciosas, especialmente de los tractos gastrointestinal y respiratorio, en niños alimentados exclusivamente al ...
    • Influence on the growth parameters of children 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Raven Press p 85-94, 1983)
      The close interactions between toxin-producing bacterial agents and the host in cases of diarrhea are reflected in several significant physiologic and nutritional alterations. The negative nutritional effects of diarrhea ...
    • Interactions of malnutrition and infection 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Arab World Printing House. In: Practical approaches to combat malnutrition with special reference to mothers and children. Cairo, Egypt. May 25-29, 1977. N.S. Scrimshaw y M. Gabr (editors). Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, Arab World Printing House, Egypt, p.134-144, 1979., 1979-05)
      It is impossible and impracticable to separate health problems from their environmental causes. Thus, a quick glance at the present world distribution of famine and of severe and chronic malnutrition reveals a concentration ...
    • Malnutrition and concurrent infections. Comparison of two populations with different infection rates 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Viral Diseasses in South-East Asia and the Wester Pacific, 1982)
      Repetitive infections induce malnutrition and growth retardation in children living in impoverished environments, even if food is available. Infection precipitates severe malnutrition in individuals already undernourished. ...
    • Malnutrition and infection in a typical rural Guatemalan Village: Lessons for the planning of preventive measures 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Behar, Moisés (2010-09-01)
      A long-term prospective study of fetal and postnatal growth and possible influenceson growth was initiated in 1963in a Guatemalan village.A high proportion of the infants were of low birth weight and they were more at risk ...
    • Malnutrition-infection interactions in the tropics 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (1975-07)
      Mr. President Dr. Rozeboom, Officers and Members of the Society, ladies and gentlemen: I begin with a word of appreciation to Dr. Desowitz and Members of the Charles Franklin Craig Lectureship Committee for having invited ...
    • Mezclas vegetales nutritivas y simples para el niño costarricense 

      Murillo González, Sandra; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Revista Medica Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, Costa Rica 15(1): 71-90, 1980)
      Con el fin de contribuir a mejorar la alimentación del niño costarricense, se elaboraron mezclas vegetales teóricas de alto valor nutritivo. Esas mezclas consisten en la combinación de una leguminosa con un cereal o ...
    • Mucosal infection and malnutrition 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Salas Chaves, Pilar (Neonatal infection. Grune y Stratton p. 299- 213, 1984)
      The mucosal infections that result in acute diarrheal diseases (ADD) and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for more than one half of all the morbidity of infants and young children throughout the less ...
    • El niño agredido y la desnutrición: observaciones epidemiológicas en Costa Rica 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Quesada, Ana Virginia; Saborío, Flory; Mohs Villalta, Edgar (Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera: 15(1), 137-148. 1980, 1980)
      The present paper analyzes hospital records of 33 cases of battered child syndrome in connection with variables of the mother and in relation to the nutrítional state of the children involved. Associations indicate that ...
    • Nutrition and health in societies in transition 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (In: Nutrition in Transition: Proceedings of the Western Hemisphere Nutrition Congress V, Quebec 1977, edited by Philip L. White and Nancy Selvey. (Chicago) American Medical Association, 1978, pp. 351-358, 1978-02-01)
      One often hears the expression that a country or society is "in transition," but there is not a clear definition of such, nor is there an effort to quantitate or characterize the level of transition undergone by a given ...
    • Nutrition and infection 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Tropical and Geographical Medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 206-211, 1984)
      The association of malnutrition and infectious disease (faminepestilence) had been recognized since the beginning of human history, but it was not until the late 1950s that such an interaction was scientifically documented ...
    • Nutritional status of the elderly in Palmares, Costa Rica 

      Havlir, Diane V.; Murillo González, Sandra; Robles, Eduardo; Trejos Willis, Alfonso; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo (Arch Latinoam nutr 33 (2) 409-422, 1983-04-01)
      The nutritional status of aged persons living in a small Costa Rican community was evaluated using anthropometric measurements, clinical findings and dietary surveys. Eighteen per cent of the aged were overweight, a condition ...
    • Oral rehydration and maintenance of children with rotavirus and bacterial diarrhoeas 

      Nalin, David R.; Levine, Myron M.; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos; Vargas, William; Lizano, Cecilia; Loría, Alba Rosa; Simhon Edgar, Alberto; Mohs Villalta, Edgar (Bull World Health Organ. 1979; 57(3): 453–459, 1979)
      To determine whether oral glucose-electrolytes therapy could be adapted with equal success to infants with diarrhoea of bacterial and viral etiologies, oral glucose-electrolytes therapy was studied in a setting where all ...
    • Oral rehydration of neonates with dehydrating diarrhoeas 

      Pizarro Torres, Daniel; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Posada S., Gloria; Nalin, David R.; Mohs Villalta, Edgar (The Lancet Vol 314(8154): 1209-1210. Dec 08, 1979., 1979-12-08)
      Thirty-nine of forty neonates with mean dehydration equivalent to 6.7% of bodyweight were orally rehydrated with a glucose/electrolyte solution. Only one patient required any intravenous fluids for rehydration. ...
    • Program development for interventions in the nutrition-infection complex 

      Keusch, Gerald T.; Katz, Michael; Koster, Frederick T.; Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Rosenberg, Irwin H.; Solomons, Noel W. (National Academy of Sciences, noviembre 1978, 1978)
      The magnitude of malnutrition in the world is staggering. In addition to its major causative factors, which relate specifically to food availability at the household level, infectious diseases are an omnipresent and important ...
    • Promotion of Breast Feeding, Health, and Survival of Infants Through Hospital and Field Interventions 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Carvajal, Juan J.; García, María Eugenia; Sáenz, Patricia; Allen, María de los Ángeles; Araya, José R.; Rodríguez, María E. (Malnutrition: Determinants and consequences.New York: Liss, Inc 123-138, 1984)
      Most authorities agree that the decline in the rate and duration of breast feeding in urban areas in many developing countries has been the result of urbanization and influences of Western culture. Two sequalae have been ...
    • Promotion of breast-feeding, health, and growth among hospital-born neonates, and among infants of a rural area of Costa Rica 

      Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Allen, María de los Ángeles; Jiménez, Patricia; García, María Eugenia; Vargas, William; Rodríguez, María E.; Valerín, Carlos (Diarrhea and Malnutrition. Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions.Editors: Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, 1983,177-202, 1983)
      decline in the incidence of breast-feeding in many developing nations \--as been recorded in recent years, often in conjunction with (a) rapid changes in way of life, (b) migration from rural to urban,- centers, ...