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Growth and Nutrition

Virginia A. Stallings, MD
Virginia A. Stallings

Dr. Stallings is working on intervention trials involving three chronic diseases with nutrition-related abnormalities resulting in meaningful adverse outcomes: cystic fibrosis (new drugs), sickle cell disease (vitamin A) and chronic pancreatitis (enzyme replacement drug).

E-mail:
stallingsv [at] chop.edu

Some Kids With Heart Defects May Experience Abnormal Growth Regulation

Published on
Feb 22, 2013
in Cornerstone Blog
Children who are born with complex heart defects like congenital heart disease can often have poor growth. A new study from a pediatric cardiologist and her team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia suggests that that this poor growth may stem from factors beyond deficient nutrition, and may include abnormalities in overall growth regulation.

Meryl S. Cohen, MD, of the Cardiac