Micronutrient powders to combat anaemia in young children: Do they work?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Verhoef, Hans ^a,b,c   Teshome, Emily ^a,b   Prentice, Andrew M ^a,b  

^a Disease Control and Elimination   (Gambia)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Child; Fe(III) EDTA; Food; Fortified; Iron; Iron deficiency; Meta analysis; Preschool

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; FERROUS FUMARATE; HEMOGLOBIN; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FORTIFIED FOOD; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MICRONUTRIENT POWDER; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; POWDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BLOOD; DEFICIENCY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KENYA;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KENYA; MICRONUTRIENTS; POWDERS;

EID: 85040782539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0998-y     Document Type: Note

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