Later puberty onset among chronically undernourished adolescents living in a Karachi slum, Pakistan

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2020, Pages 1019-1025

  Campisi, Susan C ^a,b   Humayun, Khadija N ^c   Rizvi, Arjumand ^c   Lou, Wendy ^d   Söder, Olle ^e   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BMI; height; micronutrients; puberty onset; undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; STUNTING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POVERTY; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; POVERTY AREAS; PUBERTY; THINNESS;

EID: 85074849964     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apa.15053     Document Type: Article

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