The epidemiology of vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia

Annu Rev Nutr. 1984:4:183-205. doi: 10.1146/annurev.nu.04.070184.001151.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Africa
  • Age Factors
  • Asia
  • Blindness / etiology
  • Central America
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Conjunctiva / pathology
  • Cornea / pathology
  • Developing Countries
  • Diet
  • Humans
  • Jordan
  • Night Blindness / etiology
  • Protein-Energy Malnutrition / complications
  • Retina / pathology
  • Risk
  • Seasons
  • Sex Factors
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • South America
  • Vitamin A Deficiency / complications*
  • World Health Organization
  • Xerophthalmia / classification
  • Xerophthalmia / epidemiology*
  • Xerophthalmia / etiology
  • Xerophthalmia / mortality
  • Xerophthalmia / pathology
  • Xerophthalmia / prevention & control