Weekly vs daily iron and folic acid supplementation in adolescent Nepalese girls

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-135

  Shah, Binay Kumar ^b   Gupta, Piyush ^a,b,c  

^a Dilshad Garden   (India)

^b B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS SULFATE; FOLIC ACID; IRON;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IRON THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0036155012     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.156.2.131     Document Type: Article

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