Supplementary feeding with fortified spread among moderately underweight 6-18-month-old rural Malawian children

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-170

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

Fortified spread; Infants and young children; Moderately underweight; Randomized controlled trial; Supplementary feeding; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAIZE; MALAWI; MUSCLE ATROPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOYBEAN; STUNTING SYNDROME; TREATMENT DURATION; UNDERWEIGHT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALAWI; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MICRONUTRIENTS; SEASONS; SOY FOODS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 62749196170     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2008.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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