Zinc status and relation to thyroid hormone profile in Iranian schoolchildren

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-61

  Dabbaghmanesh, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Sadegholvaad, Abdolsamad ^a   Zarei, Firoozeh ^a   Omrani, Gholamhossein ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; GOITER; HUMAN; IRAN; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THYROID HORMONES; ZINC;

EID: 39049128050     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmm064     Document Type: Article

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