Bangladesh Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (BEED) study: Protocol for a community-based intervention study to validate non-invasive biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Mahfuz, Mustafa ^a   Das, Subhasish ^a   Mazumder, Ramendra Nath ^a   Masudur Rahman, M ^b   Haque, Rashidul ^a   Bhuiyan, Md Muzibur Rahman ^c   Akhter, Hasina ^c   Sarker, Md Shafiqul Alam ^a   Mondal, Dinesh ^a   Muaz, Syed Shafi Ahmed ^d   Karim, A S M Bazlul ^e   Borowitz, Stephen M ^f   Moskaluk, Christopher A ^f   Barratt, Michael J ^g,h   Petri, William A ^f   Gordon, Jeffrey I ^g,h   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b DHAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^c Apollo Hospital   (Bangladesh)

^d DHAKA SHISHU HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^e BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Gut microbiota; EED; Nutritional intervention; Stunting; Upper gastro intestinal endoscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; CHILD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMA; QUALITY CONTROL; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STUNTING; URINE; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PATHOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; BIOMARKERS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RESEARCH DESIGN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85027414651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017768     Document Type: Article

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