Effect of zinc supplementation on morbidity and growth in hospital-born, low-birth-weight infants

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 385-391

  Taneja, Sunita ^a   Bhandari, Nita ^a   Rongsen Chandola, Temsunaro ^a   Mahalanabis, Dilip ^a   Fontaine, Olivier ^b   Bhan, Maharaj Kishan ^c   Rafiqui, Farhana Afzal ^a   Bhatia, Kiran ^a   Bagga, Arvind ^c   Mehta, Sadhana ^d   Virmani, D N ^d   Tewari, K N ^e   Sharma, Kamla ^f   Jain, Nisha ^f  

^a SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d Kasturba Hospital and Swami Dayanand Hospital   (India)

^e Municipal Corporation of Delhi   (India)

^f HINDU RAO HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; MULTIVITAMIN; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISYNERAL; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORNING DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INDIA; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZINC;

EID: 67949120376     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27707     Document Type: Article

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