Iron status of children aged 9-36 months in an urban slum integrated child development services project in Delhi

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 136-144

  Kapur, Deeksha ^a   Agarwal, Kailash N ^a,b   Sharma, Sushma ^a   Kela, Kusum ^a   Kaur, Iqbal ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anemia; Dietary iron; Dimorphic anemia; Iron deficiency

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; IRON; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036484971     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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