Home- and community-based growth monitoring to reduce early life growth faltering: an open-label, cluster-randomized controlled trial
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Home- and community-based growth monitoring to reduce early life growth faltering: an open-label, cluster-randomized controlled trial
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.117.157545