Oral nutritional supplementation with dietary counseling improves linear catch-up growth and health outcomes in children with or at risk of undernutrition: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Childhood undernutrition is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and a high socio-economic burden.

Methods

Supporting Pediatric GRowth and Health OUTcomes (SPROUT) is a randomized, controlled trial evaluating the effects of an oral nutritional supplement (ONS) with dietary counseling (DC; n = 164) compared to a DC-only group who continued consuming their habitual milk (n = 166; NCT05239208). Children aged 24-60 months who were at risk or with undernutrition, as defined by weight-for-age [WAZ] < -1 and height-for-age [HAZ] < -1 according to the WHO Growth Standards, and who also met the criterion of weight-for-height [WHZ] < 0, were enrolled in Vietnam.

Results

ONS + DC had a larger WAZ increase at day 12

SUBMITTER: Ow MYL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11266289 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature