Zinc deficiency in childhood and pregnancy: evidence for intervention effects and program responses

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 115, Issue , 2016, Pages 125-133

  Lamberti, Laura M ^a   Fischer Walker, Christa L ^a   Black, Robert E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWDER; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

DEFICIENCY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; FEMALE; FORTIFIED FOOD; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN; INFANT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); POWDER; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MICRONUTRIENTS; POWDERS; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ZINC;

EID: 84973565864     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000442079     Document Type: Article

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