The effect of a micronutrient-fortified complementary food on micronutrient status, growth and development of 6- to 12-month-old disadvantaged urban South African infants
| Autor: | J.M.A. van Raaij, A Oelofse, Muhammad A. Dhansay, J J M Tolboom, A. J. S. Benadé, Joseph G. A. J. Hautvast |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Pediatrics
Urban Population law.invention South Africa body-composition Child Development Randomized controlled trial law mental-development Micronutrients Vitamin A Psychomotor learning education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test zinc supplementation Micronutrient controlled-trial Food Fortified Serum iron impact Female Infant Food medicine.symptom nutritional supplementation medicine.medical_specialty Nutritional Supplementation Iron Population Nutritional Status Statistics Nonparametric Animal science preschool-children medicine Humans education VLAG Global Nutrition Wereldvoeding Milk Human business.industry Infant Anthropometry mortality age ghanaian infants business Weight gain Psychomotor Performance Food Science |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 54, 399-407 International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 54 (2003) |
| ISSN: | 0963-7486 |
| Popis: | The study was conducted to look at the effectiveness of a multimicronutrient-fortified complementary food on the micronutrient status, linear growth and psychomotor development of 6- to 12-month-old infants from a black urban disadvantaged community in the Western Cape, South Africa. The study was designed as an intervention study. In both the experimental and control groups, serum retinol concentration showed a decline over the intervention period of 6 months. The decline was less pronounced in the experimental group. This resulted in a significantly (P |
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