Regional disparity in prevalence of malnutrition in Saudi children

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 550-554

  El Mouzan, Mohammad I ^a   Al Herbish, Abdullah S ^a   Al Salloum, Abdullah A ^a   Foster, Peter J ^d   Al Omar, Ahmad A ^b   Qurachi, Mansour M ^c   Kecojevic, Tatjana ^d  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Riyadh Regional Laboratory   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Al Yamama Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA; STUNTING SYNDROME; UNDERWEIGHT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY;

BODY WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 77954052739     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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