Vitamin a supplementation and other predictors of anemia among children from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 590-597

  Villamor, E ^a   Mbise, R ^a   Spiegelman, D ^a   Ndossi, G ^a   Fawzi, W W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROTOZOA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0034468434     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2000.62.590     Document Type: Article

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