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Trial reportThe British journal of nutrition2017

Effect of 12-month intervention with lipid-based nutrient supplement on the physical activity of Malawian toddlers: a randomised, controlled trial.

A Pulakka, Y B Cheung, K Maleta, K G Dewey, C Kumwenda, J Bendabenda, U Ashorn, P Ashorn

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Trial report in The British journal of nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Multiple-micronutrient supplementation for women during pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

A Pulakka1Department of Public Health,University of Turku and Turku University Hospital,20014 Turku,Finland.
Y B Cheung2Centre for Quantitative Medicine,Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School,Singapore 169857,Singapore.
K Maleta4School of Public Health and Family Medicine,University of Malawi College of Medicine,Mahatma Gandhi Road,Blantyre,Malawi.
K G Dewey5Department of Nutrition,University of California, Davis,Davis,CA 95616-5270,USA.
C Kumwenda6Department of Human Nutrition and Health,Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources,PO Box 219, Lilongwe,Malawi.
J Bendabenda4School of Public Health and Family Medicine,University of Malawi College of Medicine,Mahatma Gandhi Road,Blantyre,Malawi.
U Ashorn7Tampere Center for Child Health Research,University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital,30014 Tampere,Finland.
P Ashorn7Tampere Center for Child Health Research,University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital,30014 Tampere,Finland.
Tampere University Hospital · FIUniversity of Malawi · MWSingapore Clinical Research Institute · SGTampere University · FITurku University Hospital · FIUniversity of California, Davis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical activity is beneficial for children's well-being. The effect of dietary supplementation on children's physical activity in food-insecure areas remains little studied. We examined the effects of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on children's objectively measured physical activity in a randomised, controlled, outcome-assessor-blinded trial. Mothers of the children received one capsule daily of Fe-folic acid (IFA), one capsule containing eighteen micronutrients (MMN) or one 20 g sachet of LNS (containing twenty-two MMN, protein, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids and 494 kJ (118 kcal)) during pregnancy and for 6 months thereafter. Children in the IFA and MMN groups received no supplementation, and these groups were collapsed into a single control group; children in the LNS group received 20 g LNS from 6 to 18 months. We measured physical activity with accelerometers over 1 week at 18 months. The main outcome was mean vector magnitude counts/15 s. Of the 728 children at the beginning of child intervention at 6 months, 570 (78 %) provided sufficient data for analysis. The mean accelerometer counts for the 190 children in the LNS group and for the 380 children in the control group were 303 (sd 59) and 301 (sd 56), respectively (P for difference=0·65). LNS, given to mothers during pregnancy and 6 months postpartum and to their infants from 6 to 18 months of age, did not increase physical activity among 18-month-old children.

Indexed as

Dietary SupplementsExerciseMaternal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaAccelerometryAdultFatty Acids, EssentialFemaleFolic AcidHumansInfantInfant BehaviorIronMalawiMaleMicronutrientsPregnancyFatty Acids, EssentialFolic AcidIronMicronutrientsAccelerometerIFA Fe-folic acidiLiNS International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Study GroupLipid-based nutrient supplementsLNS lipid-based nutrient supplementsMMN micronutrientsMVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activityPhysical activitySub-Saharan AfricaUndernutritionVM vector magnitude

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PMID28382892
PMCPMC5426340
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