The global burden of childhood coeliac disease: A neglected component of diarrhoeal mortality?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a,b   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,b   Ivarsson, Anneli ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MORBIDITY;

CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; DIARRHEA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MORBIDITY; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79960760226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022774     Document Type: Article

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