Daily versus intermittent iron supplementation in pregnant women

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bouzari, Zinatossadat ^a   Basirat, Zahra ^a   Zeinal Zadeh, Mahtab ^a   Cherati, Shahla ^a   Ardebil, Maryam ^b,c   Mohammadnetaj, Maedeh ^d   Barat, Shahnaz ^a  

^a BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

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EID: 80054872794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-444     Document Type: Article

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