Effect of zinc added to a daily small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement on diarrhoea, malaria, fever and respiratory infections in young children in rural Burkina Faso: a cluster-randomised trial

OBJECTIVE: Preventive zinc supplementation in the form of tablets or syrup reduces the incidence of diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory tract infections (RTI), but its effect on malaria is inconsistent. When zinc is administered with other micronutrients or foods, its effect is also uncertain. We...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ Open
Hauptverfasser: Somé, Jérôme W, Abbeddou, Souheila, Yakes Jimenez, Elizabeth, Hess, Sonja Y, Ouédraogo, Zinéwendé P, Guissou, Rosemonde M, Vosti, Stephen A, Ouédraogo, Jean-Bosco, Brown, Kenneth H
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Nutrition and Metabolism
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567679/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26362661
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007828
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