A novel fortified blended flour, corn-soy blend "plus-plus," is not inferior to lipid-based ready-to-use supplementary foods for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Malawian children

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 212-219

  LaGrone, Lacey N ^a   Trehan, Indi ^a,b   Meuli, Gus J ^a   Wang, Richard J ^c   Thakwalakwa, Chrissie ^b   Maleta, Kenneth ^b   Manary, Mark J ^a,b,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; OIL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FLOUR; HUMAN; INFANT; MAIZE; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; MILK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOYBEAN; WEIGHT GAIN; WHEY;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAWI; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MILK PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOYBEAN OIL; SOYBEANS; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84455160829     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.111.022525     Document Type: Article

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