Genetic hemoglobin disorders, infection, and deficiencies of iron and vitamin A determine anemia in young Cambodian children

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 781-787

  George, Joby ^a   Yiannakis, Miriam ^b   Main, Barbara ^c   Devenish, Robyn ^d   Anderson, Courtney ^c   An, Ung Sam ^e   Williams, Sheila M ^f   Gibson, Rosalind S ^f  

^a World Vision Cambodia   (Cambodia)

^b World Vision International   (Canada)

^c World Vision Canada   (Canada)

^d Laboratory Medicine Unlimited   (Cambodia)

^e National Institute of Public Health   (Cambodia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN E; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; IRON;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON DEPLETION; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; AGE; BLOOD; GENETICS; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; INTESTINE INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CAMBODIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEMOGLOBIN E; HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IRON; MALE; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84861112211     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.111.148189     Document Type: Article

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