Vitamin D status in pre-school children in rural Nepal

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 470-476

  Avagyan, Diana ^a   Neupane, Sudan Prasad ^a   Gundersen, Thomas E ^b   Madar, Ahmed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b VitaeLab   (Norway)

Author keywords

25 Hydroxyvitamin D; Breast feeding; Dried blood spots; Nepal; Nutritional status; Vitamin D status; Young children

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM INTAKE; VITAMIN D;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; BLOOD; BREAST FEEDING; CALCIUM INTAKE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEPAL; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

BREAST FEEDING; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEPAL; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84957672607     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136898001500083X     Document Type: Article

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