Micronutrient Supplementation and Fortification Interventions on Health and Development Outcomes among Children Under-Five in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Improved micronutrient status and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries following large-scale fortification: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2019) Emily C Keats et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Effects of nutritional supplementation and home visiting on growth and development in young children in Madagascar: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

(2019) Emanuela Galasso et al.   Lancet Global Health

Lipid-based nutrient supplements and all-cause mortality in children 6–24 months of age: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

(2019) Christine P Stewart et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Impact of vitamin D supplementation model on the circulating levels of 25 (OH) D in Algerian children aged 1–23 months

(2019) Cherifa Akrour-Aissou et al.   JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Introduction of iodised salt benefits infants’ mental development in a community-based cluster-randomised effectiveness trial in Ethiopia

(2018) Karim Bougma et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Effectiveness of a home fortification programme with multiple micronutrients on infant and young child development: a cluster-randomised trial in rural Bihar, India

(2018) Leila M. Larson et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

The WHO recommendation of home fortification of foods with multiple-micronutrient powders in children under 2 years of age and its effectiveness on anaemia and weight: a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial

(2018) Yassinmè Elysée Somassè et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Effectiveness of zinc-fortified water on zinc intake, status and morbidity in Kenyan pre-school children: a randomised controlled trial

(2018) Prosper Kujinga et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

The impact of vitamin A supplementation in childhood on adult outcomes: An exploration of mechanisms, timing of exposure, and heterogeneous effects

(2018) Yubraj Acharya   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

(2018) Clair Null et al.   Lancet Global Health

Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial

(2018) Stephen P Luby et al.   Lancet Global Health

Growth and Micronutrient Status in Children Receiving a Fortified Complementary Food

(2018) Chessa K. Lutter et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements on growth, psychomotor development, iron status, and morbidity among 6- to 12-mo-old infants in South Africa: a randomized controlled trial

(2018) Cornelius M Smuts et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Effects of Daily Zinc, Daily Multiple Micronutrient Powder, or Therapeutic Zinc Supplementation for Diarrhea Prevention on Physical Growth, Anemia, and Micronutrient Status in Rural Laotian Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2018) Maxwell A. Barffour et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Effectiveness of a Program Intervention with Reduced-Iron Multiple Micronutrient Powders on Iron Status, Morbidity and Growth in Young Children in Ethiopia

(2018) Aregash Samuel et al.   Nutrients

Prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides mitigate the adverse effects of iron fortification on the gut microbiome: a randomised controlled study in Kenyan infants

(2017) Daniela Paganini et al.   GUT

Microfinance Institutions’ Successful Delivery Of Micronutrient Powders: A Randomized Trial In Rural Haiti

(2017) Aaron Baum et al.   HEALTH AFFAIRS

Effects of lipid-based nutrient supplements v. micronutrient powders on nutritional and developmental outcomes among Peruvian infants

(2017) Susana L Matias et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Delivery of iron-fortified yoghurt, through a dairy value chain program, increases hemoglobin concentration among children 24 to 59 months old in Northern Senegal: A cluster-randomized control trial

(2017) Agnes Le Port et al.   PLoS One

Effects of zinc supplementation in the prevention of respiratory tract infections and diarrheal disease in Colombian children: A 12-month randomised controlled trial

(2016) N.S. Martinez-Estevez et al.   ALLERGOLOGIA ET IMMUNOPATHOLOGIA

Small-quantity, lipid-based nutrient supplements provided to women during pregnancy and 6 mo postpartum and to their infants from 6 mo of age increase the mean attained length of 18-mo-old children in semi-urban Ghana: a randomized controlled trial

(2016) Seth Adu-Afarwuah et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Comparison of Preventive and Therapeutic Zinc Supplementation in Young Children in Burkina Faso: A Cluster-Randomized, Community-Based Trial

(2016) Elodie Becquey et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Low-Dose Iron Supplementation in Infancy Modestly Increases Infant Iron Status at 9 Mo without Decreasing Growth or Increasing Illness in a Randomized Clinical Trial in Rural China

(2016) Betsy Lozoff et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

The Effect of Iron Fortification on Iron (Fe) Status and Inflammation: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2016) Jingqiu Ma et al.   PLoS One

Effect of fortified milk on growth and nutritional status in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) Misa Matsuyama et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Multiple micronutrients in powder delivered through primary health care reduce iron and vitamin A deficiencies in young Amazonian children

(2016) Cristieli SM Oliveira et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Effect of calcium and vitamin D on growth, rickets and Kashin-Beck disease in 0- to 5-year-old children in a rural area of central Tibet

(2016) Shancy Rooze et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Effect of Providing Multiple Micronutrients in Powder through Primary Healthcare on Anemia in Young Brazilian Children: A Multicentre Pragmatic Controlled Trial

(2016) Marly A. Cardoso et al.   PLoS One

The Epidemiology of Global Micronutrient Deficiencies

(2015) Regan L. Bailey et al.   ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM

Effect of fortified complementary food supplementation on child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster-randomized trial

(2015) Parul Christian et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Provision of 10–40 g/d Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements from 6 to 18 Months of Age Does Not Prevent Linear Growth Faltering in Malawi

(2015) Kenneth M Maleta et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Daily Zinc but Not Multivitamin Supplementation Reduces Diarrhea and Upper Respiratory Infections in Tanzanian Infants: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

(2015) Christine M McDonald et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

A Randomized Controlled Trial Offering Higher- Compared with Lower-Dairy Second Meals Daily in Preschools in Guinea-Bissau Demonstrates an Attendance-Dependent Increase in Weight Gain for Both Meal Types and an Increase in Mid-Upper Arm Circumference for the Higher-Dairy Meal

(2015) Payal Batra et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Supplementation of Maternal Diets during Pregnancy and for 6 Months Postpartum and Infant Diets Thereafter with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Does Not Promote Child Growth by 18 Months of Age in Rural Malawi: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2015) Per Ashorn et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

The effect of iron-fortified complementary food and intermittent preventive treatment of malaria on anaemia in 12- to 36-month-old children: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

(2015) Dominik Glinz et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Adding multiple micronutrient powders to a homestead food production programme yields marginally significant benefit on anaemia reduction among young children in Nepal

(2015) Akoto K. Osei et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

In-home fortification with 2.5 mg iron as NaFeEDTA does not reduce anaemia but increases weight gain: a randomised controlled trial in Kenyan infants

(2015) Tanja Barth-Jaeggi et al.   Maternal and Child Nutrition

The Long Term Impact of Micronutrient Supplementation during Infancy on Cognition and Executive Function Performance in Pre-School Children

(2015) Marisol Warthon-Medina et al.   Nutrients

Trends and mortality effects of vitamin A deficiency in children in 138 low-income and middle-income countries between 1991 and 2013: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys

(2015) Gretchen A Stevens et al.   Lancet Global Health

Preventive Zinc Supplementation among Infants, Preschoolers, and Older Prepubertal Children

(2015) Kenneth H. Brown et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Daily Use of Sprinkles Micronutrient Powder for 2 Months Reduces Anemia among Children 6 to 36 Months of Age in the Kyrgyz Republic: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

(2015) Elizabeth Lundeen et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements, Regardless of Their Zinc Content, Increase Growth and Reduce the Prevalence of Stunting and Wasting in Young Burkinabe Children: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

(2015) Sonja Y. Hess et al.   PLoS One

Cost-benefit analysis of a micronutrient supplementation and early childhood stimulation program in Nicaragua

(2014) Florencia Lopez Boo et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Effect of a single high dose vitamin A supplementation on the hemoglobin status of children aged 6–59 months: propensity score matched retrospective cohort study based on the data of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2011

(2014) Samson Gebremedhin   BMC Pediatrics

Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Do Not Affect the Risk of Malaria or Respiratory Morbidity in 6- to 18-Month-Old Malawian Children in a Randomized Controlled Trial

(2014) Charles Mangani et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Effect of probiotic L. plantarum IS-10506 and zinc supplementation on humoral immune response and zinc status of Indonesian pre-school children

(2014) Ingrid S. Surono et al.   JOURNAL OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Effect of Supplementation with a Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement on the Micronutrient Status of Children Aged 6-18 Months Living in the Rural Region of Intibucá, Honduras

(2014) Anna M. Siega-Riz et al.   PAEDIATRIC AND PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Zinc Absorption from Micronutrient Powder Is Low but Is not Affected by Iron in Kenyan Infants

(2014) Fabian Esamai et al.   Nutrients

Using the infrastructure of a conditional cash transfer program to deliver a scalable integrated early child development program in Colombia: cluster randomized controlled trial

(2014) O. P. Attanasio et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Folic acid and vitamin B-12 supplementation and common infections in 6-30-mo-old children in India: a randomized placebo-controlled trial

(2013) Sunita Taneja et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Linear growth increased in young children in an urban slum of Haiti: a randomized controlled trial of a lipid-based nutrient supplement

(2013) Lora L Iannotti et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Effects of daily iron supplementation in primary-school-aged children: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

(2013) M. Low et al.   CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL

Effect of Iron Fortification on Malaria Incidence in Infants and Young Children in Ghana

(2013) Stanley Zlotkin et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Zinc and other micronutrients supplementation through the use of sprinkles: impact on the occurrence of diarrhea and respiratory infections in institutionalized children

(2013) Danile L.B. Sampaio et al.   Jornal de Pediatria

Assessment of Drinking Water Fortification with Iron Plus Ascorbic Acid or Ascorbic Acid Alone in Daycare Centers as a Strategy to Control Iron-Deficiency Anemia and Iron Deficiency: A Randomized Blind Clinical Study

(2013) C. A. N. de Almeida et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS

Vitamin A supplementation every 6 months with retinol in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial

(2013) Shally Awasthi et al.   LANCET

Effect of provision of daily zinc and iron with several micronutrients on growth and morbidity among young children in Pakistan: a cluster-randomised trial

(2013) Sajid Soofi et al.   LANCET

Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

(2013) Robert E Black et al.   LANCET

Effect of simultaneous supplementation of vitamin A and iron on diarrheal and respiratory tract infection in preschool children in Chengdu City, China

(2013) Ke Chen et al.   NUTRITION

Mineral status of non-anemic Peruvian infants taking an iron and copper syrup with or without zinc from 6 to 18 months of age: A randomized controlled trial

(2013) Laura E. Caulfield et al.   NUTRITION

Impact of vitamin A with zinc supplementation on malaria morbidity in Ghana

(2013) Seth Owusu-Agyei et al.   Nutrition Journal

Short-Course Prophylactic Zinc Supplementation for Diarrhea Morbidity in Infants of 6 to 11 Months

(2013) A. Malik et al.   PEDIATRICS

Effects of Daily Iron Supplementation in 2- to 5-Year-Old Children: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

(2013) J. Thompson et al.   PEDIATRICS

Effectiveness of Zinc Supplementation to Full Term Normal Infants: A Community Based Double Blind, Randomized, Controlled, Clinical Trial

(2013) K. V. Radhakrishna et al.   PLoS One

Double-blind randomized controlled trial of rolls fortified with microencapsulated iron

(2013) Teresa Negreira Navarro Barbosa et al.   Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira

High-dose vitamin A supplementation administered with vaccinations after 6 months of age: Sex-differential adverse reactions and morbidity

(2013) Ane Bærent Fisker et al.   VACCINE

Effect of daily iron supplementation on health in children aged 4–23 months: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

(2013) Sant-Rayn Pasricha et al.   Lancet Global Health

Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data

(2013) Gretchen A Stevens et al.   Lancet Global Health

Selling Sprinkles micronutrient powder reduces anemia, iron deficiency, and vitamin A deficiency in young children in Western Kenya: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

(2012) Parminder S Suchdev et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of a soybean-maize-sorghum–based ready-to-use complementary food paste on infant growth in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

(2012) Ghislain Bisimwa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Effect of Micronutrient Sprinkles on Reducing Anemia

(2012) Susan J. Jack et al.   ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

Effects of micronutrient fortified milk and cereal food for infants and children: a systematic review

(2012) Klaus Eichler et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Maize Porridge Enriched with a Micronutrient Powder Containing Low-Dose Iron as NaFeEDTA but Not Amaranth Grain Flour Reduces Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Kenyan Preschool Children

(2012) Catherine W. Macharia-Mutie et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Global Iodine Status in 2011 and Trends over the Past Decade

(2012) Maria Andersson et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Effect of Iron Supplementation on Development of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Breastfed Infants

(2012) G. Gokcay et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS

Milk-based Cornstarch Porridge Fortified with Iron is Effective in Reducing Anemia: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial

(2012) F. P. Nogueira Arcanjo et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS

Use of Iron-Fortified Rice Reduces Anemia in Infants

(2012) F. P. Nogueira Arcanjo et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS

Effect on the incidence of pneumonia of vitamin D supplementation by quarterly bolus dose to infants in Kabul: a randomised controlled superiority trial

(2012) Semira Manaseki-Holland et al.   LANCET

Estimating the Global Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency: Results Based on Zinc Availability in National Food Supplies and the Prevalence of Stunting

(2012) K. Ryan Wessells et al.   PLoS One

The Effect of Adding Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food to a General Food Distribution on Child Nutritional Status and Morbidity: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

(2012) Lieven Huybregts et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: How Can They Combat Child Malnutrition?

(2012) Kathryn G. Dewey et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Long-term effects of iron and zinc supplementation during infancy on cognitive function at 9 y of age in northeast Thai children: a follow-up study

(2011) T. Pongcharoen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Plasma zinc concentration responds to short-term zinc supplementation, but not zinc fortification, in young children in Senegal

(2011) Nafissatou Ba Lo et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation and pregnancy outcomes in developing countries: meta-analysis and meta-regression

(2011) Kosuke Kawai et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Do Multiple Micronutrient Interventions Improve Child Health, Growth, and Development?

(2011) Usha Ramakrishnan et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Short-Term Zinc Supplementation with Dispersible Tablets or Zinc Sulfate Solution Yields Similar Positive Effects on Plasma Zinc Concentration of Young Children in Burkina Faso: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(2011) K. Ryan Wessells et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development

(2011) Susan P Walker et al.   LANCET

Effect of daily versus weekly home fortification with multiple micronutrient powder on haemoglobin concentration of young children in a rural area, Lao People's Democratic Republic: a randomised trial

(2011) Sengchanh Kounnavong et al.   Nutrition Journal

A Cluster-Randomized Evaluation of a Responsive Stimulation and Feeding Intervention in Bangladesh

(2011) F. E. Aboud et al.   PEDIATRICS

Vitamin A Supplementation at Birth Might Prime the Response to Subsequent Vitamin A Supplements in Girls. Three Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial

(2011) Ane Bærent Fisker et al.   PLoS One

Effectiveness of the nutritional supplement used in the Mexican Oportunidades programme on growth, anaemia, morbidity and cognitive development in children aged 12–24 months

(2011) Jorge L Rosado et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Effect of In-home Fortification of Complementary Feeding on Intellectual Development of Chinese Children

(2010) Chun-Ming CHEN et al.   BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

The effect of nutritional supplementation on physical activity and exploratory behavior of Mexican infants aged 8–12 months

(2010) N J Aburto et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Point-of-use micronutrient fortification: lessons learned in implementing a preschool-based pilot trial in South Africa

(2010) Adebayo O. Ogunlade et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION

Prenatal Micronutrient Supplementation and Intellectual and Motor Function in Early School-aged Children in Nepal

(2010) Parul Christian   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Complementary Foods Fortified with Micronutrients Prevent Iron Deficiency and Anemia in Vietnamese infants

(2010) Pham Van Phu et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Neither a Zinc Supplement nor Phytate-Reduced Maize nor Their Combination Enhance Growth of 6- to 12-Month-Old Guatemalan Infants

(2010) Manolo Mazariegos et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Long Term Cereal-Based Nutritional Supplementation Improved the Total Spine Bone Mineral Density amongst Sri Lankan Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Study

(2010) Manjula Hettiarachchi et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Effect of an improved local ingredient-based complementary food fortified or not with iron and selected multiple micronutrients on Hb concentration

(2010) Hermann Z Ouédraogo et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Effectiveness of a large-scale iron-fortified milk distribution program on anemia and iron deficiency in low-income young children in Mexico

(2009) Juan A Rivera et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Efeito da fortificação semanal do arroz com ferro quelato sobre a freqüência de anemia e concentração de hemoglobina em crianças de creches municipais do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

(2009) Ursula Viana Bagni et al.   Cadernos de Saude Publica

Supplementing iron and zinc: double blind, randomized evaluation of separate or combined delivery

(2009) S Chang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Provision of Multiple Rather Than Two or Fewer Micronutrients More Effectively Improves Growth and Other Outcomes in Micronutrient-Deficient Children and Adults

(2009) Lindsay H. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Effects of Vitamin A, Vitamin A plus Iron and Multiple Micronutrient-Fortified Seasoning Powder on Preschool Children in a Suburb of Chongqing, China

(2009) Ke CHEN et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AND VITAMINOLOGY

Effects of micronutrients on growth of children under 5 y of age: meta-analyses of single and multiple nutrient interventions

(2008) Usha Ramakrishnan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Complementary Feeding With Fortified Spread and Incidence of Severe Stunting in 6- to 18-Month-Old Rural Malawians

(2008) John C. Phuka et al.   ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

Treament and prevention of anemia with ferrous sulfate plus folic acid in children attending daycare centers in Goiânia, Goiás State, Brazil: a randomized controlled trial

(2008) Maria Claret Costa Monteiro Hadler et al.   Cadernos de Saude Publica

Ferrous Gluconate and Ferrous Sulfate Added to a Complementary Food Distributed by the Mexican Nutrition Program Oportunidades Have a Comparable Efficacy to Reduce Iron Deficiency in Toddlers

(2008) Teresa Shamah-Levy et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION

Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

(2008) Robert E Black et al.   LANCET

Effectiveness of a community-based intervention to improve nutrition in young children in Senegal: a difference in difference analysis

(2008) Harold Alderman et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION