The association of serum choline with linear growth failure in young children from rural Malawi

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 191-197

  Semba, Richard D ^a   Zhang, Pingbo ^a   Gonzalez Freire, Marta ^b   Moaddel, Ruin ^b   Trehan, Indi ^c,d   Maleta, Kenneth M ^d   Ordiz, M Isabel ^c   Ferrucci, Luigi ^b   Manary, Mark J ^c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Betaine; Children; Choline; Linear growth; Malnutrition; Stunting; Trimethylene N oxide; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CHOLINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; METHYLAMINE; TRIMETHYLOXAMINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; LINEAR GROWTH FAILURE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY ISOTOPIC DILUTION TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUNTING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; DIET; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; INFANT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

BETAINE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLAMINES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84977072736     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.115.129684     Document Type: Article

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