Prevalence and demographic factors associated with vitamin A deficiency in Colombian children aged 12-59 months;Prevalencia de deficiencia subclínica de vitamina A y factores sociodemográficos asociados en niños de 12-59 meses de edad en Colombia

Endocrinologia y Nutricion

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 460-466

  Martínez Torres, Javier ^a   Meneses Echavéz, José F ^b   Ramírez Vélez, Robinson ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE PAMPLONA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Children; Colombia; Risk factors; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOCIAL ASPECT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; BLOOD; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84908319591     PISSN: 15750922     EISSN: 15792021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.endonu.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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