Growth faltering in rural Gambian children after four decades of interventions: a retrospective cohort study

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2017, Pages e208-e216

  Nabwera, Helen M ^a,b   Fulford, Anthony J ^a,b   Moore, Sophie E ^a,c   Prentice, Andrew M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHEST INFECTION; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FUNDING; GAMBIAN; GROWTH FALTERING; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; COMPLICATION; GAMBIA; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH PROMOTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; THINNESS;

EID: 85009374146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30355-2     Document Type: Article

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