Serum copper and zinc concentrations in healthy children aged 3-14 years in Greece

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Arvanitidou, Vasiliki ^a   Voskaki, Irini ^b   Tripsianis, Gregory ^c   Athanasopoulou, Helen ^b   Tsalkidis, Aggelos ^a   Filippidis, Stylianos ^a   Schulpis, Kleopatra ^b   Androulakis, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Copper; Growth; Nutrition; Zinc

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EGG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GREECE; HUMAN; LEGUME; MALE; MEAT; MILK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COPPER; EATING; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; ZINC;

EID: 34147133818     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:115:1:1     Document Type: Article

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