Are Low Intakes and Deficiencies in Iron, Vitamin A, Zinc, and Iodine of Public Health Concern in Ethiopian, Kenyan, Nigerian, and South African Children and Adolescents?

Ethiopian pre-school children consuming a predominantly unrefined plant-based diet have low prevalence of iron-deficiency anaemia

(2016) Dawd Gashu et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Proxy markers of serum retinol concentration, used alone and in combination, to assess population vitamin A status in Kenyan children: a cross-sectional study

(2015) Elise F Talsma et al.   BMC Medicine

Effects of agricultural biodiversity and seasonal rain on dietary adequacy and household food security in rural areas of Kenya

(2015) Florence K M’Kaibi et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Prevalence of iron and zinc deficiencies among preschool children ages 3 to 5 y in Vhembe district, Limpopo province, South Africa

(2015) Selekane Ananias Motadi et al.   NUTRITION

Vitamin A and anthropometric status of South African preschool children from four areas with known distinct eating patterns

(2015) Mieke Faber et al.   NUTRITION

Low intake of calcium and vitamin D, but not zinc, iron or vitamin A, is associated with stunting in 2- to 5-year-old children

(2015) Martha E. van Stuijvenberg et al.   NUTRITION

Effect of African leafy vegetables on the micronutrient status of mildly deficient farm-school children in South Africa: a randomized controlled study

(2015) Marinka van der Hoeven et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Iron status of schoolchildren (6–15 years) and associated factors in rural Nigeria

(2015) Rufina N. B. Ayogu et al.   Food & Nutrition Research

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

Magnitude and Distribution of Vitamin A Deficiency in Ethiopia

(2015) Tsegaye Demissie et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Results of Fortification Rapid Assessment Tool (FRAT) Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa and Suggestions for Future Modifications of the Survey Instrument

(2015) Sonja Y. Hess et al.   FOOD AND NUTRITION BULLETIN

Decline in childhood iron deficiency after interruption of malaria transmission in highland Kenya

(2014) Anne EP Frosch et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Prevalence and associated factors of goiter among rural children aged 6-12 years old in Northwest Ethiopia, cross -sectional study

(2014) Molla Mesele et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Nutritional Iron Deficiency Anemia: Magnitude and Its Predictors among School Age Children, Southwest Ethiopia: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study

(2014) Amare Desalegn et al.   PLoS One

Micronutrient Deficiencies and Related Factors in School-Aged Children in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study in Libo Kemkem and Fogera Districts, Amhara Regional State

(2014) Zaida Herrador et al.   PLoS One

Urbanization, nutrition and development in Southern African cities

(2014) Bruce Frayne et al.   Food Security

Determinants of Anemia among Preschool Children in Rural, Western Kenya

(2013) Eric M. Foote et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection and Nutritional Status Among Urban Slum Children in Kenya

(2013) Parminder S. Suchdev et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010

(2013) N. J. Kassebaum et al.   BLOOD

Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost?

(2013) Zulfiqar A Bhutta et al.   LANCET

Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?

(2013) Marie T Ruel et al.   LANCET

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

(2013) Robert E Black et al.   LANCET

The Global Hidden Hunger Indices and Maps: An Advocacy Tool for Action

(2013) Sumithra Muthayya et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Micronutrient levels and nutritional status of school children living in Northwest Ethiopia

(2012) Bemnet Amare et al.   Nutrition Journal

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

Nutrient intakes from complementary foods consumed by young children (aged 12–23 months) from North Wollo, northern Ethiopia: the need for agro-ecologically adapted interventions

(2012) Kaleab Baye et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

A Multi-Micronutrient Beverage Enhances the Vitamin A and Zinc Status of Nigerian Primary Schoolchildren

(2011) Grant J. Aaron et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Adjusting plasma ferritin concentrations to remove the effects of subclinical inflammation in the assessment of iron deficiency: a meta-analysis

(2010) David I Thurnham et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

A Micronutrient Powder with Low Doses of Highly Absorbable Iron and Zinc Reduces Iron and Zinc Deficiency and Improves Weight-For-Age Z-Scores in South African Children

(2010) Barbara Troesch et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Children Consuming Cassava as a Staple Food are at Risk for Inadequate Zinc, Iron, and Vitamin A Intake

(2010) Alison Gegios et al.   PLANT FOODS FOR HUMAN NUTRITION

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement

(2010) David Moher et al.   International Journal of Surgery