High Malnutrition Rate in Venezuelan Yanomami Compared to Warao Amerindians and Creoles: Significant Associations WITH Intestinal Parasites and Anemia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Verhagen, Lilly M ^a,b   Incani, Renzo N ^c   Franco, Carolina R ^d   Ugarte, Alejandra ^e   Cadenas, Yeneska ^e   Sierra Ruiz, Carmen I ^a   Hermans, Peter W M ^b   Hoek, Denise ^f   Campos Ponce, Maiza ^g   de Waard, Jacobus H ^a   Pinelli, Elena ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^d Hospital de Ninos J M de los Rios   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CREOLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH STATUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VENEZUELAN YANOMAMI;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84885451665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077581     Document Type: Article

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