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SUBMITTER: Tessema M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6413067 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tessema Masresha M De Groote Hugo H D Brouwer Inge I J M Feskens Edith E Belachew Tefera T Zerfu Dilnesaw D Belay Adamu A Demelash Yoseph Y S Gunaratna Nilupa N
Nutrients 20190122 2
To our knowledge, the relationships among soil zinc, serum zinc and children's linear growth have not been studied geographically or at a national level in any country. We use data from the cross-sectional, nationally representative Ethiopian National Micronutrient Survey (ENMS) (<i>n</i> = 1776), which provided anthropometric and serum zinc (<i>n</i> = 1171) data on children aged 6⁻59 months. Soil zinc levels were extracted for each child from the digital soil map of Ethiopia, developed by the ...[more]