Vitamin B12 status in rural adolescent school girls in Mysuru, India: A community-based cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: K Jagadish Kumar (Author), Sangeetha Balaji (Author), Praveen Kulkarni (Author), V G Manjunath (Author), H R Nandish (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Almost 56% of Indian adolescent girls aged 15-19 years suffer from anemia. Adolescent age is a period of many significant physiological changes that increase nutritional demand, and they remain at risk for nutritional deficiencies. Our aim is to assess the prevalence of Vitamin B12 deficiency among...