Abstract

Objectives Milk mineral and trace element concentrations from Mam-Mayan mothers were measured and used to assess breastfed infant’s daily intake of minerals and trace elements and their association with infant WAZ, LAZ and HCAZ at 3 stages of lactation. Methods In a cross-sectional study, transitional (5-17d, n=56), early (18-46d, n=75) and established (4-6mo, n=103) milk […]

Objectives As Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQs) are subject to measurement error, associations between self-reported intake by FFQ and outcome measures should be adjusted using correction factors obtained from a validation study. Whether the correction is adequate depends on the characteristics of the reference method used in the validation study. Preferably, reference methods should 1) be

Objectives Jharkhand is a conflict ridden state in India with a difficult geographical terrain. Innovative approaches, using mobile short message service (SMS) to gather real time reports from VAS sites, and portable media players for community mobilization, in geographically excluded areas affected by civil strife, were introduced to increase access to VAS. Methods UNICEF partnered

Objectives Uttar Pradesh, being the largest Indian State (200 million population), has the largest adolescent micronutrient programme in the country. This paper describes institutionalization of real-time monitoring and feedback loop mechanism to strengthen programme coverage and quality of service, covering 49 million adolescents’ girls and boys across the state, with 75 districts and 820 administrative

Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of iodine prophylaxis group (KI 200 and 300 µg/day ) in the background of anemia during pregnancy. Methods 414 women from the 3 regions were included in the study (Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Moscow) on the first trimester of pregnancy at the age of 18 to 42 years.Pregnant women were divided

Objectives Ensure year-round availability and intake of nutrient rich vegetables in poor households, along with cash/food transfer particularly by women and children as first step Methods The program encourages and supports the production of a variety of nutrient dense vegetables through home or keyhole gardens which are established at the homestead level; and nutrition behavior

Objectives Rice fortification technologies may affect mineral bioavailability from fortified rice.We measured fractional iron (FAFe, Studies 1 & 2) and zinc (FAZn, Study 2) absorption from ferric-pyrophosphate (FePP) and zinc-oxide (ZnO) fortified rice produced with coating, hot or cold extrusion. Methods Healthy women were fed rice-meals (both studies: 4 mg iron/meal): Study 1 compared FAFe

Objectives Infantile beriberi exists in Cambodia. Low maternal thiamin intake reduces breast milk thiamin concentrations, placing breastfed infants at risk of this potentially fatal disease. We aimed to determine if ad libitum consumption of thiamin-fortified fish sauce yielded higher erythrocyte thiamin diphosphate concentrations (eTDP) among women (18-45y) and their newborn infants, and breast milk thiamin

Objectives To determine the effect of daily zinc and/or multivitamin (vitamins C, E & B-complex) supplementation on early childhood development among Tanzanian infants. Methods In this randomized, 2×2 factorial, double-blind trial, 2400 infants were randomized to daily supplementation with zinc (Zn), multivitamins (MV), zinc and multivitamins (Zn+MV), or placebo at 6 weeks of age. At

Objectives Two community-based trials in neighboring health districts of Burkina Faso found that small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements increased child growth, but zinc supplementation had no effect, compared with non-intervention cohorts. We aimed to explore whether differential growth effects are associated with differences in intervention, demographic variables, or morbidity between studies. Methods Children in the LNS