Iron deficiency and anaemia in rural school children in a coastal area of Morocco

Pakistan Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 400-403

  El Hioui, Mohamed ^a,b   Ahami, Ahmed Omar Touhami ^a   Aboussaleh, Youssef ^a   Rusinek, Stephane ^b   Dik, Khalid ^a   Soualem, Abdelkader ^a  

^a IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Iron deficiency; Schoolchildren and Morocco; Serum ferritin

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MOROCCO; PARENT; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SEASHORE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 41949124506     PISSN: 16805194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjn.2008.400.403     Document Type: Article

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