Nutrition Research
Volume 29, Issue 2 , Pages 75-81 , February 2009

Indonesian women of childbearing age are at greater risk of clinical vitamin A deficiency in families that spend more on rice and less on fruits/vegetables and animal-based foods

  • Ashley A. Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Nutrition Service, Policy, Strategy and Programme Support Division, World Food Programme, 00148 Rome, Italy
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  • Andrew Thorne-Lyman

      Affiliations

    • Nutrition Service, Policy, Strategy and Programme Support Division, World Food Programme, 00148 Rome, Italy
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  • Kai Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • ,
  • Saskia de Pee

      Affiliations

    • Nutrition Service, Policy, Strategy and Programme Support Division, World Food Programme, 00148 Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Klaus Kraemer

      Affiliations

    • Sight and Life, DSM, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Regina Moench-Pfanner

      Affiliations

    • Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Mayang Sari

      Affiliations

    • Helen Keller International, New York, NY 10010, USA
    • ,
  • Nasima Akhter

      Affiliations

    • Helen Keller International Asia Pacific, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
    • ,
  • Martin W. Bloem

      Affiliations

    • Nutrition Service, Policy, Strategy and Programme Support Division, World Food Programme, 00148 Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Richard D. Semba

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 410 955 3572; fax: +1 410 955 0629.

Received 29 September 2008 ,Revised 17 December 2008 ,Accepted 19 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2008.12.004

Nutrition Research
Volume 29, Issue 2 , Pages 75-81 , February 2009

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