Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9890, 2013, Pages 427-451

  Black, Robert E ^a   Victora, Cesar G ^b   Walker, Susan P ^c   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^d   Christian, Parul ^a   De Onis, Mercedes ^e   Ezzati, Majid ^f   Grantham Mcgregor, Sally ^g,h   Katz, Joanne ^a   Martorell, Reynaldo ⁱ   Uauy, Ricardo ^j  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FOLIC ACID; IODINE; IRON; RETINOL; VITAMIN D; ZINC;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FETUS GROWTH; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN DEATH; OBESITY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84881182352     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60937-X     Document Type: Review

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