Estimating the Global Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency: Results Based on Zinc Availability in National Food Supplies and the Prevalence of Stunting

BACKGROUND: Adequate zinc nutrition is essential for adequate growth, immunocompetence and neurobehavioral development, but limited information on population zinc status hinders the expansion of interventions to control zinc deficiency. The present analyses were conducted to: (1) estimate the countr...

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Autores principales: Wessells, K. Ryan, Brown, Kenneth H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23209782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050568

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23209782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050568

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