Federico Gómez Santos, Mexican pediatrician (Coahuila de Zaragoza 17 November 1898 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 February 1980)
Developed Gómez scale for classifying anthropometric-based infantile desnutrition
Gave a definition of malnutrition and divided it into primary and secondary
Definitely identified the disease of malnutrition, simplified the terminology, established the basis for a clinical classification (weight for age), described the different degrees of intensity of the disorder and the treatment for each degree and gave as a common cause the deficient assimilation of food by the organism
Gave a definition of malnutrition and divided it into primary and secondary
Desnutrición. Boletín Med. Hosp. Inf. 3 (4):543, 1946
With J. Cravioto & R. Ramos Galván characterized the child severe malnutrition
First described nutritional recovery syndrome
With J. Cravioto & R. Ramos Galván. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952
Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing
With J. Cravioto, R. Ramos Galván & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952
With J. Cravioto established new criteria in child growth dynamics and development
With R. Ramos Galván showed the chlorine concentration in the sweat and described the pattern of plasmatic amino acids showing the transient existence of metabolic blocks similar to congenital errors of metabolism
PAPERS IN RELEVANT PERIODICALS
With R. Ramos Galván, J. Cravioto & S. Frenk. Prevention and treatment of chronic severe infantile malnutrition (kwashiorkor). Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 69(5):969-81, 1958
With R. Ramos Galván, J. Cravioto, S. Frenk, J. Vazquez Santaella & C. de la Peña. Fat absorption in chronic severe malnutrition in children. Lancet 268(6934):121-2, 1956