Determinants of anemia among school-aged children in Mexico, the United States and Colombia

Nutrients

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Syed, Sana ^a   Addo, O Yaw ^b   De La Cruz Góngora, Vanessa ^c   Ashour, Fayrouz A Sakr ^d   Ziegler, Thomas R ^a   Suchdev, Parminder S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Colombia; Iron deficiency; Mexico; School aged children; United States

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OROSOMUCOID;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEXICO; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; STUNTING; UNITED STATES; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH DISORDERS; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASTING SYNDROME;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 85015356205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu8070387     Document Type: Article

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