Commentary: Learning from within-study and among-study comparisons-trials of zinc supplementation and childhood acute lower respiratory illness episodes in the developing world

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 809-811

  Poole, Charles ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLISHING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK;

CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

EID: 77955735411     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq067     Document Type: Note

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