Hair zinc status and its correlation with height indicator in pre-school and school children from a mixed income, low density (mild) community in southern Ghana

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-46

  Takyi, E E K ^a,b  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; HAIR; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HAIR; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; ZINC;

EID: 3042821179     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v81i1.8794     Document Type: Article

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