Zinc deficiency in infants and children: A review of its complex and synergistic interactions

Paediatrics and International Child Health

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 279-288

  Krebs, Nancy F ^a   Miller, Leland V ^a   Michael Hambidge, K ^a  

^a University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Breastfed infants; Endogenous zinc losses; Environmental enteropathy; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SHORT STATURE; SKIN DISEASE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ZINC HOMEOSTASIS; DEFICIENCY; DIET; HOMEOSTASIS; INFANT; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ZINC;

EID: 84919352762     PISSN: 20469047     EISSN: 20469055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2046905514Y.0000000151     Document Type: Article

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