Trial reportPublic health nutrition2016
Multiple micronutrients in powder delivered through primary health care reduce iron and vitamin A deficiencies in young Amazonian children.
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- Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from six months to five years of age.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Prevalence of childhood anaemia in Brazil: still a serious health problem: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
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- Effect of Home-Based Multiple Micronutrient Powder Fortification on Haemoglobin Levels in Infants in Nampula, Mozambique: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Trial
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- Effectiveness of locally produced ready to use supplementary food on hemoglobin, anthropometrics, and plasma micronutrients concentrations of 6 to 23 months age children: a non-randomized community-based trial from Pakistan.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Low-level Plasmodium vivax exposure, maternal antibodies, and anemia in early childhood: Population-based birth cohort study in Amazonian Brazil.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Association of Iron Supplementation Programs with Iron-Deficiency Anemia Outcomes among Children in Brazil.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Use of monitoring data to improve implementation of a home fortification program in Bihar, India.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Article
- Risk of Deficiency in Multiple Concurrent Micronutrients in Children and Adults in the United States.Nutrients · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe evaluated the effect of home fortification with multiple micronutrient powder (MNP) on anaemia and micronutrient status of young Amazonian children.
designA pragmatic controlled trial was performed. A control group (CG) of children aged 11-14 months was recruited in the routine of primary health-care centres for assessing anaemia and micronutrient status. At the same time, an intervention group (IG) of infants aged 6-8 months was recruited in the same health centres to receive MNP daily in complementary feeding for 2 months. The IG children were assessed 4-6 months after enrolment (n 112) when they had reached the age of the CG participants (n 128) for comparisons.
settingPrimary health centres in Rio Branco city, Brazilian Amazon. SUBJECTS: A total of 240 children aged<2 years.
resultsIn the CG, the prevalence of anaemia (Hb8·3 mg/l) and vitamin A deficiency (VAD; serum retinol <0·70 μmol/l) was 20·3 %, 72·4 % and 18·6 %, respectively. Among the IG participants (aged 11-14 months), the prevalence of anaemia, ID and VAD was 15·2 %, 25·2 % and 4·7 %, respectively. The IG had a lower likelihood of ID (prevalence ratio (95 % CI): 0·34 (0·24, 0·49)) and VAD (0·25 (0·09, 0·64)).
conclusionsHome fortification of complementary feeding delivered through primary health care was effective in reducing iron and vitamin A deficiencies among young Amazonian children.
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