Whole cowpea meal fortified with NaFeEDTA Reduces iron deficiency among ghanaian school children in a malaria endemic area

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1836-1842

  Abizari, Abdul Razak ^a,b   Moretti, Diego ^b,c   Zimmermann, Michael B ^b,c   Armar Klemesu, Margaret ^d   Brouwer, Inge D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EDETIC ACID; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; PHYTIC ACID; POLYPHENOL; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; GHANA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; WORM EXPULSION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EDETIC ACID; FABACEAE; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERRITINS; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GHANA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYTIC ACID; POLYPHENOLS; PREVALENCE; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84869131207     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.165753     Document Type: Article

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