The influence of vitamin A status on iron-deficiency anaemia in anaemic adolescent schoolgirls in Myanmar

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2325-2332

  Htet, Min Kyaw ^a,b   Fahmida, Umi ^a   Dillon, Drupadi ^a   Akib, Arwin ^a   Utomo, Budi ^a   Thurnham, David I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b Ministry of Health   (Myanmar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anaemia; Iron deficiency; Myanmar

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; OROSOMUCOID; RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYANMAR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIET; DIET RECORDS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IRON; LOGISTIC MODELS; MYANMAR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OROSOMUCOID; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84910638969     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013002723     Document Type: Article

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