Nutritional assessment and weight-height development of sickle cell children in Northeast Brazil

Objective: To evaluate the weight-height development and the nutritional status of a sickle cell anemia infantile sample in relation to zinc seric levels and to bone age in comparison to a control group of eutrophic children of the same Brazilian region. Methods: There were studied 66 sickle cell ch...

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Main Authors: Carlos Antonio Bruno da Silva, Maria de Fátima Rebouças Antunes, Jose Brandão Neto
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de Fortaleza 2009-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde
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Online Access:http://www.unifor.br/images/pdfs/pdfs_notitia/3552.pdf