Growth in non-anemic infants supplemented with different prophylactic iron doses;Crescimento de lactentes não-anêmicos suplementados com diferentes doses profiláticas de ferro

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 365-372

  Da Silva, Danielle Góes ^a,c   Franceschini, Sylvia Do C C ^b   Sigulem, Dirce M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Administration and dosage; Growth; Infant; Iron; Iron deficiency anemia; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; IRON THERAPY; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON, DIETARY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 49449115725     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1817     Document Type: Article

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