Fortification of staple foods with zinc for improving zinc status and other health outcomes in the general population

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Shah, Dheeraj ^a   Sachdev, Harshpal S ^b   Gera, Tarun ^c   De Regil, Luz Maria ^d   Peña Rosas, Juan Pablo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c SL Jain Hospital   (India)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEMOGLOBIN; ZINC;

ADVERSE EVENT; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ANEMIA; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DIARRHEA; FOOD; FOOD FORTIFICATION; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; LACTATION; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLE FOOD; STUNTING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNDERWEIGHT; VOMITING; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

EID: 85041512141     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010697     Document Type: Article

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