Effect of oral nutritional supplementation on growth and recurrent upper respiratory tract infections in picky eating children at nutritional risk: a randomized, controlled trial
Autor: | Apurba K. Ghosh, Bala Kishore, Irfan Shaikh, Vinita Satyavrat, Anil Kumar, Tapan Shah, Prahlad Pote, Sandeep Shinde, Yatin Berde, Yen Ling Low, Verena M.H. Tan, Dieu T. T. Huynh |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of International Medical Research, Vol 46 (2018) |
Druh dokumentu: | article |
ISSN: | 0300-0605 1473-2300 03000605 42100534 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0300060518757355 |
Popis: | Objectives To evaluate the effect of oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) plus dietary counselling (DC) (intervention) versus DC alone (control) on growth and upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) in nutritionally at-risk, picky eating children in India. Methods We performed a 90-day, prospective, randomized, controlled trial. A total of 255 children aged 24–72 months with a weight-for-age z-score ≥−2 and |
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