Dietary supply of selenium for adolescents in three residential care orphanages in Southern Ghana

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 410-411, Issue , 2011, Pages 72-79

  Adotey, Dennis K ^a,c   Stibilj, Vekoslava ^b   Serfor Armah, Yaw ^a,c   Nyarko, Benjamin J B ^a,c   Jaćimović, Radojko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c National Nuclear Research Institute   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Dietary supply; Duplicate diet; Ghana; Orphanage; Selenium

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENTS; DIETARY SUPPLY; DUPLICATE DIET; GHANA; ORPHANAGE;

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SELENIUM;

SELENIUM; WATER;

ADOLESCENCE; DIET; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORPHAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELENIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HUMAN; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; ORPHANAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOASSAY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; DIET; GHANA; HUMANS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ORPHANAGES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GHANA;

EID: 80655146925     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.039     Document Type: Article

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