Soluble transferrin receptor in Aboriginal children with a high prevalence of iron deficiency and infection

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 96-105

  Ritchie, B ^a,b   McNeil, Y ^a,b   Brewster, D R ^a,b  

^a Northern Territory Clinical School   (Australia)

^b ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Ferritin; Iron deficiency anaemia; Soluble transferrin receptor

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ANEMIA; CHILD HEALTH; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ABORIGINE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; IRON DEFICIENCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TURBIDIMETRY;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; AREA UNDER CURVE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0842287126     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01158.x     Document Type: Article

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