Prolonged Bottle-Feeding in Mexican-American Toddlers: Occult Blood Loss in Excessive Milk Ingestion

Academic Pediatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-

  Greenberg, Larrie ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM 51;

BOTTLE FEEDING; ERYTHROCYTE; FOOD INTAKE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LETTER; MILK; OCCULT BLOOD; OVERNUTRITION; TODDLER;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; BOTTLE FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MILK; OCCULT BLOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65549117731     PISSN: 18762859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2009.02.005     Document Type: Letter

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