Adjusting for the acute phase response is essential to interpret iron status indicators among young Zanzibari children prone to chronic malaria and helminth infections

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2124-2131

  Kung'u, Jacqueline K ^a   Wright, Victoria J ^b   Haji, Hamad J ^c   Ramsan, Mahdi ^c   Goodman, David ^d   Tielsch, James M ^d   Bickle, Quentin D ^b   Raynes, John G ^b   Stoltzfus, Rebecca J ^a  

^a Division of Nutritional Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri   (Tanzania)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PLACEBO; PROTOPORPHYRIN ZINC; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TANZANIA;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; APPETITE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; MALARIA; MALE; OROSOMUCOID; TANZANIA;

VERMES;

EID: 70350322697     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.104026     Document Type: Article

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