Prevalence of anaemia, deficiencies of iron and Vitamin A and their determinants in rural women and young children: A cross-sectional study in Kalalé district of northern Benin

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1203-1213

  Alaofè, Halimatou ^a   Burney, Jennifer ^b   Naylor, Rosamond ^c   Taren, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Benin; Children; Iron deficiency; Vitamin A deficiency; Women

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; IRON; OROSOMUCOID; RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BENIN; BLOOD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BENIN; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON-RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OROSOMUCOID; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85010842060     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980016003608     Document Type: Article

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