Infant development at the age of 6 months in relation to feeding practices, Iron status, and growth in a Peri-Urban community of South Africa

Nutrients

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Rothman, Marinel ^a   Faber, Mieke ^a,b   Covic, Namukolo ^a,d   Matsungo, Tonderayi M ^a   Cockeran, Marike ^a   Kvalsvig, Jane D ^c   Smuts, Cornelius M ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Infancy; Nutritional status; Psychomotor development

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAREGIVER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KILIFI DEVELOPMENTAL INVENTORY AND A PARENT RATING SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; BABY FOOD; BLOOD; BREAST FEEDING; GROWTH DISORDER; INFANT NUTRITION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; IRON; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85040951941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu10010073     Document Type: Article

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