Prevalence and etiology of nutritional anaemias in early childhood in an urban slum

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 107, Issue JUNE, 1998, Pages 269-273

  Gomber, Sunil ^a,b   Kumar, Satish ^a   Rusia, Usha ^a   Gupta, Pushpa ^a   Agarwal, K N ^a   Sharma, Satendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Early childhood; Infection; Iron; Prevalence; Supplementation; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUPPLEMENTATION; URBAN AREA; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

ANEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0031824196     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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