Prevalence and predictors of iron deficiency anemia in children under five years of age in Pakistan, a secondary analysis of National Nutrition Survey data 2011-2012

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Habib, Muhammad Atif ^a,b   Black, Kirsten ^a   Soofi, Sajid Bashir ^b   Hussain, Imtiaz ^b   Bhatti, Zaid ^b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^b   Raynes Greenow, Camille ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OROSOMUCOID;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84971231392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155051     Document Type: Article

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