Vitamin D status of low birth weight infants in Delhi: A comparative study

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 446-450

  Agarwal, Ramesh ^a   Virmani, Deenanath ^a   Jaipal, Munna Lal ^a   Gupta, Shuchita ^a   Gupta, Nandita ^a   Sankar, M Jeeva ^a   Bhatia, Sunita ^a   Agarwal, Anand ^a   Devgan, Veena ^a   Deorari, Ashok ^a   Paul, Vinod K ^a  

^a Kasturba Hospital and Swami Dayanand Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MOTHERS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RICKETS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84868253466     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fms013     Document Type: Article

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