Zinc, gravida, infection, and iron, but not vitamin B-12 or folate status, predict hemoglobin during pregnancy in Southern Ethiopia.

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Published in J Nutr on March 01, 2008

Authors

Rosalind S Gibson1, Yewelsew Abebe, Sally Stabler, Robert H Allen, Jamie E Westcott, Barbara J Stoecker, Nancy F Krebs, K Michael Hambidge

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 9015. rosalind.gibson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

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