Interaction of two public health problems in Turkish schoolchildren: Nutritional deficiencies and goitre

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1001-1006

  Ersoy, Betul ^a,d   Günes, Hafize Sunalcan ^a   Gunay, Turkan ^b   Yilmaz, Ozge ^a   Kasirga, Erhun ^a   Egemen, Ayten ^c  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Goitre; Nutrition; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PALPATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CLASS; THINNESS; TURKEY;

EID: 33846805838     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/PHN2006983     Document Type: Article

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