Iron Status of Infants and Toddlers Age 6 to 18 Months and Association with Type of Milk Consumed from DNSIYC Secondary Analysis
| Autor: | Zainab Alghamdi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Vitamin Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty 030109 nutrition & dietetics Vitamin C biology business.industry Significant difference Physiology Ferritin 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine chemistry Vitamin C intake 030225 pediatrics Secondary analysis biology.protein Medicine Iron status business Socioeconomic status |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences. |
| ISSN: | 2155-9600 |
| DOI: | 10.4172/2155-9600.1000596 |
| Popis: | This study compares the intake of different types of milk, iron, haem iron, non-haem iron, and Vitamin C intake among infant and children age 6-18 months of age from Diet and Nutrition Survey of Infants and Young Children (DNSIYC). Approach SACN 2010 recommendation, the Reference Nutrient Intakes (RNI) of iron and Vitamin C for infant and children age 6-18 months was investigated in this study. Moreover, Ferritin and haemoglobin investigated as well to assess iron status, subjects who donated bloods were included in this study to investigate their iron status, 473 subjects for haemoglobin, and 443 for ferritin. Different factors investigated on 2567 subjects, include age groups, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic level, maternal education level, and different types of milk consumed. This study found significant difference for ferritin and haemoglobin in different levels, across different types of milk consumed, haemiron, Vitamin C, age groups and maternal education level. While there were no significant differences across sex, ethnicity and socioeconomic level in all age groups. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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