A micronutrient-fortified food enhances iron and selenium status of Zambian infants but has limited efficacy on zinc

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 935-943

  Gibson, Rosalind S ^a   Kafwembe, Emmanuel ^b   Mwanza, Sydney ^b   Gosset, Laura ^c   Bailey, Karl B ^a   Mullen, Anne ^c   Baisley, Kathy ^c   Filteau, Suzanne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Tropical Diseases Research Centre Ndola   (Zambia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; ZINC;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; BEAN; BLINDNESS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LEGUME; MAIZE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PEANUT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; URBAN AREA; ZAMBIA; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INFLAMMATION; IRON; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OROSOMUCOID; PREVALENCE; SELENIUM; ZAMBIA; ZINC;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955512259     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.135228     Document Type: Article

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