Vitamin D supplementation in Swiss infants

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 29-30, 2006, Pages 473-481

  Dratva, Julia ^a   Merten, S ^a   Ackermann Liebrich, U ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Infant health; Rickets; Vitamin D supplementation

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; LANGUAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; SWITZERLAND; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 33747101424     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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