Iron nutrition and anaemia in a malaria-endemic environment: Haematological investigation of the Gidra-speaking population in lowland Papua New Guinea

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 333-346

  Nakazawa, Minato ^a   Ohtsuka, Ryutaro ^a   Kawabe, Toshio ^b   Hongo, Tetsuro ^a   Inaoka, Tsukasa ^c   Akimichi, Tomoya ^d   Suzuki, Tsuguyoshi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TAKASAKI CITY UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Iron; Malaria

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE CARRIER; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON METABOLISM; MALARIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0029774386     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN19960040     Document Type: Article

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