Vitamin B-12, folic acid, and growth in 6- to 30-month-old children: A randomized controlled trial

Pediatrics

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e918-e926

  Strand, Tor A ^a,b   Taneja, Sunita ^c   Kumar, Tivendra ^d   Manger, Mari S ^b   Refsum, Helga ^e,f   Yajnik, Chittaranjan S ^g   Bhandari, Nita ^c  

^a INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^d Society for Essential Health Action and Training   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PLACEBO;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEIGHT FOR AGE Z SCORE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFANT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT FOR AGE Z SCORE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; INDIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84927755809     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-1848     Document Type: Article

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