A double burden of overall or central adiposity and anemia or iron deficiency is prevalent but with little socioeconomic patterning among moroccan and tunisian urban women

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 87-97

  Gartner, Agnès ^a   El Ati, Jalila ^b   Traissac, Pierre ^a   Bour, Abdellatif ^d   Berger, Jacques ^a   Landais, Edwige ^a   El Hsaïni, Houda ^d   Ben Rayana, Chiheb ^c   Delpeuch, Francis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Department of Study and Planning ^*  (Tunisia)

^c Institut National de Nutrition Tunis   (Tunisia)

^d IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUNISIA; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890924591     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.178285     Document Type: Article

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