Anemia in adolescent girls: A preliminary report from semi-urban Nepal

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1126-1130

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Anemia; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; NEPAL; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; NEPAL;

EID: 0036912459     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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