Objectives: WHO recommends using information on dietary intakes to design food fortification programs, but nationally-representative, individual dietary data are rarely available in low-income countries. Prior to initiating a fortification program in Cameroon, we assessed intakes...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21014
Objectives: Biofortification is a fast emerging agricultural technology and nutrition strategy for addressing hidden hunger. The impact and cost-effectiveness of biofortified provitamin A maize (VAM) in Zambia and high zinc rice (HZR) in Bangladesh were examined. Methods: In eac...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21218
Introduction: Home-based fortification of complementary food with micronutrient powders (MNPs) has been proven to reduce anemia. In resource constrained contexts - like Madagascar - where child diet is of poor quality and anemia levels high, the challenge lies in finding viable a...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21015
Objectives: Besides understanding the genetic determinants of iron status, investigations on how these interact with environmental factors to influence iron status are crucial. The objective of our study was to determine interaction between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21103
Objectives: Hypertension is public health problem worldwide and the trends of prevalence have increased in economically developing countries. Reducing dietary sodium is one of the main recommendations to treatment hypertension. Restriction of salt consumption could cause a reduct...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21016
Objectives: The association between folic acid deficiency (FAD) at conception and severe neural tube defects (NTDs) at birth is well documented. We estimate the social costs of NTDs due to FAD in Switzerland considering direct medical and non-medical costs, lost productivity and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21258
Lea Prince, Stephen Vosti, Oula Ouattara, Elodie Becquey, Cesaire Ouedraogo, Sonja Hess, Noel Rouamba, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Kenneth Brown & Klaus Kraemer·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Zinc supplements may decrease incidence of diarrhea among young children at risk of zinc deficiency. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of three approaches for delivery of preventive and therapeutic zinc supplements in rural Burkina Faso. Methods: Cost estimates were...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21017
Objectives: Iron Folic acid supplementation (IFAS) during pregnancy has been implemented in Senegal for many years. However, prevalence of anemia is still high among pregnant women. To provide data for program improvement, we conducted a study to assess the prevalence of anemia...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21259
Objectives: To analyze the factors associated with anemia in pregnancy in the Cascades region in Burkina Faso. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in antenatal clinics of the Cascades region in Burkina Faso during one month from May to June 2012. We collected data on...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21018
Objectives: Infants from 6 months onwards need energy- and nutrient dense complementary foods. This is a challenge in Ethiopia, where monotonous diets of poor nutrient density are fed to young children. We used data of the National Food Consumption Survey to determine nutrient a...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21159