Complementary feeding with fortified spread and incidence of severe stunting in 6- to 18-month-old rural Malawians

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 619-626

  Phuka, John C ^a,b   Maleta, Kenneth ^a   Thakwalakwa, Chrissie ^a   Cheung, Yin Bun ^c   Briend, André ^d,e   Manary, Mark J ^f   Ashorn, Per ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOD; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; FORTIFIED SPREAD; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MICRONUTRIENT FORTIFIED MAIZE SOY FLOUR; NUTRITION EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOYBEAN; STUNTED GROWTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT GAIN;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 46949097375     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.162.7.619     Document Type: Article

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