Stunting: The Need for Application of Advances in Technology to Understand a Complex Health Problem

EBioMedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 26-27

  Huey, Samantha L ^a   Mehta, Saurabh ^a,b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; NONESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; VITAMIN D;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BREAST FEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALNUTRITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STUNTING; WORK CAPACITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH DISORDER; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84961221217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.03.013     Document Type: Note

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