A summary index of feeding practices is positively associated with height-for-age, but only marginally with linear growth, in rural senegalese infants and toddlers

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1116-1122

  Bork, Kirsten ^a   Cames, Cécile ^a   Barigou, Sabah ^a   Cournil, Amandine ^a   Diallo, Aldiouma ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE SPECIFIC CARE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SENEGAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84863557473     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.157602     Document Type: Article

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