Patterns of stunting and wasting: Potential explanatory factors

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-233

  Martorell, Reynaldo ^a   Young, Melissa F ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CACHEXIA; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CACHEXIA; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862125522     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.111.001107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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