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Lessons learned from implementing the pilot Micronutrient Powder Initiative in four districts in Ghana

BMC Nutrition, 2020
Background Micronutrient deficiencies affect many children in low-income settings due primarily to over-reliance on complementary foods low in nutrients. Home-fortification (HF) could improve children’s diet quality in these settings.
Frank Kyei-Arthur, Ruth Situma, Jevaise Aballo, Abraham B. Mahama, Lilian Selenje, Esi Amoaful, Seth Adu-Afarwuah   +6 more
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Secular Trends in the Prevalence of and Disability-Adjusted Life Years Due to Common Micronutrient Deficiencies in China From 1990 to 2019: An Age-Period-Cohort Study and Joinpoint Analysis

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
BackgroundUnderstanding the national burdens and trends of micronutrient deficiencies can help guide effective intervention strategies. However, there is a lack of evidence of secular trends and age and sex differences in China.
Haiying Chen, Jinxin Lu, Yongze Li
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Editorial: Nutritional interventions for tackling micronutrient deficiencies [PDF]

Frontiers in Nutrition
Aamir Shehzad, Hafiz A. R. Suleria, Sajeela Akram   +2 more
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Zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin C status are associated with leptin concentrations and obesity in Mexican women: results from a cross-sectional study

Nutrition & Metabolism, 2012
Background The prevalence of obesity among Mexican women is high and it could be related to micronutrient status. We evaluated in a cross-sectional study the associations of zinc and vitamins A, C and E concentrations with BMI, central adiposity, body ...
García Olga, Ronquillo Dolores, Caamaño María del, Camacho Mariela, Long Kurt, Rosado Jorge L   +5 more
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A Review of Micronutrient Deficiencies and Analysis of Maize Contribution to Nutrient Requirements of Women and Children in Eastern and Southern Africa [PDF]

, 2020
This paper reviews and analyses the importance of maize as staple food in Eastern and Southern Africa (E&SA) and contributes in understanding the nexus between maize nutritional composition and prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs) in these ...
Galani Yamdeu, JH, Gong, YY, Galani Yamdeu, J., Orfila, C   +3 more
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Micronutrient deficiencies among children and women in Bangladesh: progress and challenges

Journal of Nutritional Science, 2016
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current situation regarding micronutrient deficiencies among children and women in Bangladesh. This review also discusses the successes and current challenges of existing intervention programmes.
Faruk Ahmed, Noreen Prendiville, Anuradha Narayan   +2 more
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Micronutrient deficiencies: current issues. [PDF]

, 2019
Micronutrient deficiencies are of growing public health concern. An understanding of how micronutrient deficiencies affect health and measures that can be taken to improve micronutrient status are essential to improve population health.
Mary T. McCann, McCann, M, Pamela J. Magee, Magee, Pamela   +3 more
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Vitamin A, vitamin E, iron and zinc status in a cohort of HIV-infected mothers and their uninfected infants

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014
Introduction We hypothesized that nutritional deficiency would be common in a cohort of postpartum, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women and their infants.
Jacqueline Pontes Monteiro, Maria Letícia Santos Cruz, Marisa Márcia Mussi-Pinhata, Roberta Garcia Salomão, Alceu Jordão Junior, Jennifer Suzanne Read, José Henrique da Silva Pilotto, Rachel Ann Cohen, Sonia Karolina Stoszek, George Kelly Siberry   +9 more
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Fighting Obesity-Related Micronutrient Deficiencies through Biofortification of Agri-Food Crops with Sustainable Fertilization Practices

Plants, 2022
Obesity is a critical medical condition worldwide that is increasingly involved with nutritional derangements associated with micronutrient deficiencies, including iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium, selenium, and vitamins A, C, D, and E.
Carlos Esteban Guardiola-Márquez, María Teresa Santos-Ramírez, M. Eugenia Segura-Jiménez, Melina Lizeth Figueroa-Montes, Daniel A. Jacobo-Velázquez   +4 more
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Nutritional Implications of Bariatric Surgery on Pregnancy Management—A Narrative Review of the Literature

Medicina, 2023
One in three women of reproductive age is obese. The mainstay treatment for obesity is bariatric surgery, and the following weight reduction results in a decrease in pregnancy adverse effects, including gestational diabetes mellitus, pregnancy-induced ...
Anna Różańska-Walędziak, Maciej Walędziak, Anna Mierzejewska, Ewa Skopińska, Malwina Jędrysik, Beata Chełstowska   +5 more
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