Nutrition and hair

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 412-419

  Goldberg, Lynne J ^a   Lenzy, Yolanda ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BIOTIN; CISPLATIN; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; RETINOL; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ACRODERMATITIS ENTEROPATHICA; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BIOTIN DEFICIENCY; BODY HAIR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEATH; DIETARY INTAKE; EATING DISORDER; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HAIR; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR LOSS; HAIR TEXTURE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTRICHOSIS; HYPERVITAMINOSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRON DEFICIENCY; LIVER FAILURE; MALABSORPTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SCALP HAIR; SCURVY; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; AVITAMINOSIS; CHILD; COMPLICATION; DIET; FEMALE; HAIR DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AVITAMINOSIS; CHILD; DIET; FEMALE; HAIR; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION PROCESSES; RISK;

EID: 77953976295     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.03.038     Document Type: Article

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