Vitamin A deficiency and other factors associated with severe tuberculosis in timor and Rote Islands, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1130-1135

  Pakasi, T A ^a   Karyadi, E ^a,d   Wibowo, Y ^a   Simanjuntak, Y ^a   Suratih, N M D ^b   Salean, M ^b   Darmawidjaja, N ^c   van der Meer, J W M ^d   van der Velden, K ^d   Dolmans, W M V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b WZ Johannes General Hospital   (Indonesia)

^c Kefamenanu General Hospital   (Indonesia)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL; ZINC;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDONESIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ARM; BODY SIZE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; LUNG; MALE; MALNUTRITION; SERUM ALBUMIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70249096594     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2009.25     Document Type: Article

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