Association of swaddling, rickets onset and bone properties in children in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Public Health

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 834-840

  Urnaa, Vaanchig ^a,b   Kizuki, Masashi ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^c   Kaneko, Akie ^a   Inose, Tomoko ^a   Seino, Kaoruko ^c   Takano, Takehito ^a  

^a Health Promotion   (Japan)

^b MONGOLIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mongolia; Rickets; Skeletal deformity; Speed of sound; Swaddling

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; RICKETS;

AGE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MALFORMATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MONGOLIA; RICKETS; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARDIZATION; TIBIA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOTHING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MONGOLIA; MUSCULOSKELETAL ABNORMALITIES; RICKETS;

ASIA; CENTRAL PROVINCE [MONGOLIA]; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; ULAANBAATAR;

EID: 33747362161     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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