Risk Factors Associated with Malnutrition in One-Year-Old Children Living in the Peruvian Amazon

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Joseph, Serene A ^a,b   Casapía, Martín ^c   Blouin, Brittany ^a,b   Maheu Giroux, Mathieu ^d   Rahme, Elham ^a,b   Gyorkos, Theresa W ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c ASOCIACIÓN CIVIL SELVA AMAZÓNICA   (Peru)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCARIS; BAYLEY SCALES OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PERUVIAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TRICHURIS; UNDERWEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPLICATION; GROWTH DISORDERS; PARASITOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOIL;

SOIL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOIL; THINNESS;

EID: 84928267315     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003369     Document Type: Article

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