Early childhood diarrhea predicts impaired school performance

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 513-520

  Lorntz, Breyette ^a,b   Soares, Alberto M ^c   Moore, Sean R ^a   Pinkerton, Relana ^a   Gansneder, Bruce ^b   Bovbjerg, Victor E ^b   Guyatt, Helen ^d   Lima, Aldo M ^c   Guerrant, Richard L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Diarrhea in early childhood; Impaired school performance

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 33745005490     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000219524.64448.90     Document Type: Article

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