Maternal vitamin D status and child morbidity, anemia, and growth in human immunodeficiency virus-exposed children in Tanzania

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-175

  Finkelstein, Julia L ^a,b   Mehta, Saurabh ^a   Duggan, Christopher ^b,c   Manji, Karim P ^d   Mugusi, Ferdinand M ^d   Aboud, Said ^d   Spiegelman, Donna ^b   Msamanga, Gernard I ^d   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Anemia; Children; Growth; HIV AIDS; Morbidity; Vitamin d

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HYPOCHROMIC MICROCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCYTOSIS; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRICS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUNTING; TANZANIA; UNDERWEIGHT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TANZANIA; VITAMIN D; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858134155     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318245636b     Document Type: Article

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