Dietary diversity score is a useful indicator of vitamin A status of adult women in Northern Kenya

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 829-834

  Fujita, Masako ^a   Lo, Yun Jia ^a   Baranski, Janine R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KENYA; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; VITAMIN A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867744990     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22327     Document Type: Article

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