The effects of an oil and wheat flour fortification program on pre-school children and women of reproductive age living in Côte d’Ivoire, a malaria-endemic area

Nutrients

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Rohner, Fabian ^a,b   Raso, Giovanna ^c,d,e   Aké Tano, Sassor Odile P ^f,g   Tschannen, Andreas B ^c,i   Mascie Taylor, Christopher Guy Nicholas ^h   Northrop Clewes, Christine A ^b  

^a GroundWork LLC   (Switzerland)

^b GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

^c Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique en Côte d Ivoire   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Barry Callebaut AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anemia; Children; Flour; Fortification; Iron; Oil; Vitamin A; Women

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTESUNATE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EDIBLE OIL; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; OROSOMUCOID; RETINOL; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FOLIC ACID; PALM OIL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; WHEAT FLOUR; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; DIET THERAPY; FLOUR; FORTIFIED FOOD; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIOMARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOLIC ACID; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANT OILS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960463272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu8030148     Document Type: Article

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