Risk Factors for Xerophthalmia among Mothers and Their Children and for Mother-Child Pairs with Xerophthalmia in Cambodia

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 517-523

  Semba, Richard D ^a,e   De Pee, Saskia ^b   Panagides, Dora ^b   Poly, Ouk ^c   Bloem, Martin W ^b,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c Ministry of Health Cambodia   (Cambodia)

^d Helen Keller National Center   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ADULT; CAMBODIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; XEROPHTHALMIA;

EID: 1842478181     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.4.517     Document Type: Article

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