Status of Iodine Deficiency in Selected Blocks of Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 338-340

  Kapil, Umesh ^a   Saxena, Nandini ^a   Ramachandran, Shoba ^a   Sharma, T D ^b   Nayar, Deepika ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Health and Family Welfare Training Center   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHILD; DEFICIENCY DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; INDIA; JUVENILE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH REPORT; SALT INTAKE; SOUTHERN ASIA; STUDIES; SURVEYS;

AGE FACTORS; ASIA; CHILD; DEFICIENCY DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; INDIA; MEASUREMENT; NUTRITION DISORDERS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOUTHERN ASIA; STUDIES; SURVEYS; YOUTH;

CHILD; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; INDIA; IODINE; MALE; PREVALENCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 0031113251     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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