Copper and zinc blood levels among children with nonorganic failure to thrive

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-186

  Berkovitch, M ^a   Heyman, E ^a   Afriat, R ^a   Matz Khromchenko, I ^a   Avgil, M ^a   Greenberg, R ^a   Zimmerman, D R ^b   Berman, S ^a   Weissgarten, J ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEREM Immediate Medical Services   (Israel)

Author keywords

Copper; Non organic failure to thrive; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COPPER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ZINC;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DIETARY INTAKE; DIETITIAN; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; XYLOSE TEST; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0037378628     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/clnu.2002.0619     Document Type: Article

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