The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of prenatal docosahexaenoic acid supplementation on offspring development at 18 months of age.
The objective of this study was to assess the associations between anemia and multiple proximal risk factors and distal risk factors in nonpregnant women of reproductive age.
As no national data exist on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies, a survey was conducted in 2010 to assess the micronutrient status of randomly selected women of reproductive age and children aged 6–75 months.
The BRINDA project is a multiagency and multicountry collaboration that was formed to improve micronutrient assessment and to better characterize anemia. Findings from this project can inform guidelines and strategies to prevent and control micronutrient deficiencies and anemia globally.
The objective of this Food and Nutrition Bulletin supplement is to focus attention on the need to integrate actions to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition.
This supplement brings together papers focusing on the critical 1000 days of human development from pregnancy until 2 years of age.
The objective of this study was to assess the contribution of iodine intake from iodised household salt, iodised salt in instant noodles, and iodine in ground water in five regions of Indonesia.
The papers presented in this Supplement cover a wide range of topics pertinent to the implementation of large-scale food fortification programs and contribute to strengthening ongoing programs, as well as providing important lessons for new countries.
In this review, an overview of the Integration to Effective Implementation framework, as applied to iron, is presented along with a summary of the key issues addressed during the Micronutrient Forum session series.
The objective of this study was thus to analyze the dietary micronutrient intakes of these women, to select the food vehicles to be fortified and to calculate their contributions to meet the recommended nutrient intake for iron, zinc, vitamin A and folic acid.