Unexpectedly high early prevalence of anaemia in 6-month-old breast-fed infants in rural Bangladesh

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-11

  Shakur, Yaseer A ^a   Choudhury, Nuzhat ^b   Ziauddin Hyder, S M ^c   Zlotkin, Stanley H ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Bangladesh; Infancy

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRON, DIETARY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS;

EID: 75149178282     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009005886     Document Type: Article

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