Breast-feeding, dietary intakes and their associations with subclinical vitamin A deficiency in children in Anhui Province, China

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 733-738

  Zhang, Yewu ^a   Tao, Fangbiao ^b   Yin, Huiping ^c   Zhu, Xiaoming ^c   Ji, Guoping ^c   Kong, Shenghua ^c   Song, Qinhua ^c   Chen, Jianhua ^c   Chu, Chengzhi ^b   Li, Zhu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Institute of Maternal and Child Health Care of Anhui Province   (China)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Dietary intakes; Serum retinol; Subclinical vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SIBLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 34447519134     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007246609     Document Type: Article

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