Impact of targeted food supplementation on pregnancy weight gain and birth weight in rural Bangladesh: An assessment of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Program (BINP)

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1205-1212

  Nahar, Shamsun ^a,b   Mascie Taylor, C G Nicholas ^a   Begum, Housne Ara ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Food supplementation; Low birth weight; Pregnancy weight gain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BANGLADESH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 69749110777     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008003765     Document Type: Article

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