Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: Randomised controlled trial in an urban slum

British Medical Journal

Volumn 324, Issue 7350, 2002, Pages 1358-1361

  Bhandari, Nita ^a   Bahl, Rajiv ^a   Taneja, Sunita ^a   Strand, Tor ^b   Mølbak, Kåre ^c   Ulvik, Rune Johan ^b   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^b   Bhan, Maharaj K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; RETINOL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY AREAS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; URBAN HEALTH; VITAMIN A; ZINC;

EID: 0037042640     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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