Common beans and cowpeas as complementary foods to reduce environmental enteric dysfunction and stunting in Malawian children: Study protocol for two randomized controlled trials

Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Trehan, Indi ^a,b   Benzoni, Nicole S ^a   Wang, Alfred Z ^c   Bollinger, Lucy B ^a   Ngoma, Theresa N ^d   Chimimba, Ulemu K ^d   Stephenson, Kevin B ^a,e   Agapova, Sophia E ^e   Maleta, Kenneth M ^b   Manary, Mark J ^a,b,f  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LILONGWE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Malawi)

^e Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common beans; Complementary foods; Cowpeas; Dual sugar absorption test; Environmental enteric dysfunction; Environmental enteropathy; Legumes; Malnutrition; Microbiome; Stunting

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BEAN; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION; FOOD COMPOSITION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; LEGUME; MALAWIAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; STUNTING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FABACEAE; GROWTH DISORDERS; INFANT NUTRITION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALAWI; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASEOLUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FABACEAE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALAWI; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHASEOLUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84946901115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-1027-0     Document Type: Article

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