Breast milk zinc transfer and early post-natal growth among urban South Indian term infants using measures of breast milk volume and breast milk zinc concentrations

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 398-409

  Samuel, Tinu Mary ^a,c   Thomas, Tinku ^a   Thankachan, Prashanth ^a   Bhat, Swarnarekha ^a   Virtanen, Suvi M ^b,c   Kurpad, Anura V ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breast milk zinc content; Breast milk zinc intake; Infant; Length gain and weight gain; Serum zinc

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM; ZINC;

ADULT; APPROPRIATE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST MILK; BREAST MILK VOLUME; DIETARY INTAKE; DILUTION; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFANT; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT GAIN; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHEMISTRY; DEFICIENCY; FOLLOW UP; INDIA; INFANT NUTRITION; POSTNATAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ZINC;

EID: 84902506688     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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