Predictors of micronutrient status among six- to twelve-month-old breast-fed Ghanaian infants

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-207

  Lartey, Anna ^a,b   Manu, Alhassan ^a   Brown, Kenneth H ^a   Dewey, Kathryn G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Anemia; Ferritin; Humans; Riboflavin; Vitamin A; Zinc

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; ZINC;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GHANA; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NUTRIENT; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033969538     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.2.199     Document Type: Article

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