Nutritional, immunological and health status of the elderly population living in poor neighbourhoods of Quito, Ecuador

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 845-853

  Sempértegui, Fernando ^a   Estrella, Bertha ^a   Elmieh, Negar ^b   Jordan, Michael ^c   Ahmed, Tanvir ^b   Rodríguez, Alicia ^a   Tucker, Katherine L ^b   Hamer, Davidson H ^d   Reeves, Philip G ^e   Meydani, Simin Nikbin ^b  

^a Corporación Ecuatoriana de Biotecnología ^*  (Ecuador)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e GRAND FORKS HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Elderly; Immune senescence; Less developed countries; Micronutrients

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ANTIGEN; CARBOHYDRATE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; FAT; FOLIC ACID; GLYCEROL; IRON; SELENIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; TETANUS TOXOID; TRACE ELEMENT; TUBERCULIN; VITAMIN D; ZINC; ANTIGEN; VITAMIN;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ECUADOR; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOOD INTAKE; FRIEND; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE STATUS; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PHYSICIAN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PROTEUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; RELATIVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SKIN INDURATION; TRICHOPHYTON; UNDERWEIGHT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; ZINC DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; DIET; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; SKIN TESTS; URBAN HEALTH; VITAMINS;

EID: 33947417217     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/BJN20061802     Document Type: Article

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