Food insecurity and nutritional status of preconception women in a rural population of North Karnataka, India

• Main Authors: Shivanand C. Mastiholi (Author), Manjunath S. Somannavar (Author), Sunil S. Vernekar (Author), S. Yogesh Kumar (Author), Sangappa M. Dhaded (Author), Veena R. Herekar (Author), Rebecca L. Lander (Author), Michael K. Hambidge (Author), Nancy F. Krebs (Author), Shivaprasad S. Goudar (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background As per the World Health Organization, the nutritional status of women of reproductive age is important, as effects of undernutrition are propagated to future generations. More than one-third of Indian women in the reproductive age group are in a state of chronic nutritional defic...