A macro- and micronutrient-fortified complementary food supplement reduced acute infection, improved haemoglobin and showed a dose–response effect in improving linear growth: a 12-month cluster randomised trial

A macro- and micronutrient-fortified complementary food supplement reduced acute infection, improved haemoglobin and showed a dose–response effect in improving linear growth: a 12-month cluster randomised trial

Inadequate protein quality may be a risk factor for poor growth. To examine the effect of a macronutrient–micronutrient supplement KOKO Plus (KP), provided to infants from 6 to 18 months of age, on linear growth, a single-blind cluster-randomised study was implemented in Ghana. A total of thirty-eig...

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Main Authors: Shibani A. Ghosh, Nicholas R. Strutt, Gloria E. Otoo, Devika J. Suri, Judith Ankrah, Thomas Johnson, Paul Nsiah, Chie Furuta, Hitoshi Murakami, Gillian Perera, Kenneth Chui, Kennedy Bomfeh, Harold Amonoo-Kuofi, Kwaku Tano-Debrah, Ricardo Uauy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Nutritional Science
Subjects:
Complementary feeding
Linear growth
Hb
KOKO Plus
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2048679019000181/type/journal_article

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