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Dr Rie Goto

 

I am interested in child nutrition, growth, disease interactions and on how disease leads to both acute and chronic malnutrition in relation to immune reaction and gut function and have undertaken research in an urban slum in Nepal and a rural area in Bangladesh.

 

My work has involved combining anthropometric and laboratory techniques with multivariate analyses. I examined the extent of gut mucosal damage in Bangladeshi infants were being exposed to Giardia (a protozoan) detected by Giardia antibody titre - so they were not being exclusively breast fed - and their significant amounts of gut damage was related with growth faltering. I was able to demonstrate that even monthly treatment for Giardia was insufficient to stop growth faltering and that children became re-infected very soon after the medication had been given. In addition, Bangladeshi infants were suffering from frequent infections as shown by their elevated immune reaction (elevated immunoglobulin G levels).

 

Research interest :

Child nutriton and growth

Intestinal permeabilty and growth faltering

Quality control of measurement

 

 

Publications:

 

Mascie-Taylor CGN, Marks MA, Goto R & Islam R (2010) Impact of a cash-for-work programme on food consumption and nutrition among women and children facing food insecurity in rural Bangladesh. WHO Bulletin 88(11), 854-860. [pdf]

 

Mohsena M, Mascie-Taylor CGN & Goto R (2010) Association between socio-economic status and childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh; a comparison of possession score and poverty index. Public Health and Nutrition 13(10),1498-1504. [pdf]

 

Goto R, Mascie-Taylor CGN & Lunn PG (2009) Impact of anti-Giardia and antihelmintic treatment on infant growth and intestinal permeability in rural Bangladesh: a randomised double-blind controlled study, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 103(5), 520-529. [pdf]

 

Goto R, Mascie-Taylor CGN & Lunn PG (2009) Impact of intestinal permeability, inflammation status and parsitic infections on infant growth faltering in rural Bangladesh, British Journal of Nutrition 101(10), 1509-1516. [pdf]

 

Goto R & Mascie-Taylor CGN (2007) Precision of measurement as a component of human variation, Journal of Physiological Anthropology 26(2), 253-256. [pdf]

 

Mascie-Taylor CGN & Goto R (2007) Human variation and Body Mass Index: a review of the universality of BMI cut-offs, gender and urban-rural differences, and secular changes, Journal of Physiological Anthropology 26(2), 109-112. [pdf]

 

Panter-Brick C, Lunn PG, Goto R & Wright C (2004) Immunostimulation and growth faltering in UK infants, American Journal of Human Biology 16: 581-587. [pdf]

 

Nakao Y, Moji K, Ohishi K, Matsuo N, Rahman M, Flora MS & Goto R (2004) Child delivery and breastfeeding in Bangladesh: group interviews to pregnant women, mothers, traditional birth attendants, family welfare assistants, and nurses in Dhamrai county of Dhaka district, The Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology 3: 112-122.

 

Goto R, Panter-Brick C, Northrop-Clewes C, Manahdhar R & Tuladhar NR (2002) Poor intestinal permeability in mildly stunted Nepali children: associations with weaning practices and Giardia lamblia infection, British Journal of Nutrition 88: 141-149. [pdf] [Comment]

 

Goto R & Ohtsuka R (1999) The Relationship between Women’s Bone Mineral Density and the Number of Childbirths: An Analysis of Health Examination Data in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, The Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology 65(3): 156-160.