Identification of an appropriate strategy to control anemia in adolescent girls of poor communities

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-267

  Sharma, Anshu ^b   Prasad, Kanti ^b   Visweswara Rao, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

^b Nutrition Foundation of India   (India)

Author keywords

Anemia; Ascorbic acid; Iron folate supplementation

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FOLIC ACID; IRON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INDIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; POVERTY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; ASCORBIC ACID; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INDIA; IRON; POVERTY AREAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034122904     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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