Trial reportNutrients2021
Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency in Healthy 1-3-Year-Old Children from Three Western European Countries.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of Serum Zinc Status in Patients With Neurologic Impairment Under Controlled Enteral Nutrition.Cureus · 2025Article
- Association Between Hair Trace Element Content and Children's Growth and Development: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Surveillance Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Maternal knowledge, attitudes, and practices on zinc deficiency in coastal Bangladesh: A structural modelling study.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Zinc in Developed Countries in Pediatric Patients: A 360-Degree View.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Potential Complementary Effect of Zinc andNutrients · 2024Review
- Response to Comments from Brown et al. (ref: 2021EJCN0980RR).European journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- Response to Correspondence from McDonald et al.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- Genomic approaches for improving grain zinc and iron content in wheat.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Review
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Abstract
Zinc deficiency (ZnD) has adverse health consequences such as stunted growth. Since young children have an increased risk of developing ZnD, it is important to determine its prevalence and associated factors in this population. However, only a few studies have reported on ZnD prevalence in young children from Western high-income countries. This study evaluated ZnD prevalence and associated factors, including dietary Zn intake, in healthy 1-3-year-old children from Western European, high-income countries. ZnD was defined as serum Zn concentration <9.9 µmol/L. A total of 278 children were included with a median age of 1.7 years (Q1-Q3: 1.2-2.3). The median Zn concentration was 11.0 µmol/L (Q1-Q3: 9.0-12.2), and ZnD prevalence was 31.3%. No significant differences were observed in the socio-economic characteristics between children with and without ZnD. Dietary Zn intake was not associated with ZnD. ZnD is common in healthy 1-3-year-old children from Western European countries. However, the use of currently available cut-off values defining ZnD in young children has its limitations since these are largely based on reference values in older children. Moreover, these values were not evaluated in relation to health consequences, warranting further research.
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