Effect of daily zinc supplementation on child mortality in southern Nepal: a community-based, cluster randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Lancet

Volumn 370, Issue 9594, 2007, Pages 1230-1239

  Tielsch, James M ^a   Khatry, Subarna K ^b   Stoltzfus, Rebecca J ^c   Katz, Joanne ^a   LeClerq, Steven C ^a,b   Adhikari, Ramesh ^d   Mullany, Luke C ^a   Black, Robert ^a   Shresta, Shardaram ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project Sarlahi   (Nepal)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FERROUS SULFATE; FOLIC ACID; PLACEBO; RETINOL; ZINC SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSENTERY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MORBIDITY; NEPAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 34848867509     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61539-6     Document Type: Article

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