Acute-phase protein levels, diarrhoea, Trichuris trichiura and maternal education are predictors of serum retinol: A cross-sectional study of children in a Dhaka slum, Bangladesh

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 725-734

  Kongsbak, Katja ^a   Wahed, Mohammed A ^b   Friis, Henrik ^c   Thilsted, Shakuntala H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute phase proteins; Children; Serum retinol; Vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ALBENDAZOLE; ALBIZOL; ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; RETINOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEMATODIASIS; NOSE DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; TRICHURIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FECES; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; TRICHURIASIS;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BANGLADESH; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; TRICHURIASIS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33947523462     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN20061898     Document Type: Article

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