Characterisation of anaemia and associated factors among infants and pre-schoolers from rural India

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 861-871

  Nair, Krishnapillai Madhavan ^a   Fernandez Rao, Sylvia ^a   Nagalla, Balakrishna ^a   Kankipati, Radhakrishna Vijaya ^a   Punjal, Ravinder ^a   Augustine, Little Flower ^a   Hurley, Kristen M ^b,c   Tilton, Nicholas ^c   Harding, Kimberly B ^d   Reinhart, Greg ^e   Black, Maureen M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MICRONUTRIENT INITIATIVE   (Canada)

^e Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaemia; India; Infants; Pre schoolers; Risk factors; sTfR log ferritin index

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; IRON; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFICIENCY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; METABOLISM; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FOLIC ACID; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; IRON; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84960801126     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980015002050     Document Type: Article

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