Pediatric reference values for serum zinc concentration in Iranian subjects and an assessment of their dietary zinc intakes

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1254-1256

  Ghasemi, Asghar ^a   Zahediasl, Saleh ^a   Hosseini Esfahani, Firoozeh ^b   Syedmoradi, Leila ^a   Azizi, Fereidoun ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Children; Reference value; Serum zinc; Zinc intake

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; IRAN; LABORATORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; REFERENCE VALUES; ZINC;

EID: 84866267323     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.07.086     Document Type: Article

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