Nutritional status of pregnant women in Northeast Thailand

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-334

  Andert, Christoph U ^a   Sanchaisuriya, Pattara ^b   Sanchaisuriya, Kanokwan ^c   Schelp, Frank P ^d   Schweigert, Florian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Public Health   (Thailand)

^c KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Iron; Nutritional status; Pregnancy; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CAROTENOID; PLASMA PROTEIN; RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; THAILAND; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33748860693     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: 09647058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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