Zinc and copper levels in low birth weight deliveries in Medani Hospital, Sudan

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Abass, Rihab M ^a   Hamdan, Hamdan Z ^b   Elhassan, Elhassan M ^c   Hamdan, Sumia Z ^b   Ali, Naji I ^d   Adam, Ishag ^e  

^a Sudan Academy of Science   (Sudan)

^b AL NEELAIN UNIVERSITY   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

^d SUDAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Sudan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Copper; Low birth weight; Sudan; Zinc

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ZINC;

ADULT; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COPPER; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT; ZINC;

EID: 84903955410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-386     Document Type: Article

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