Effectiveness of zinc supplementation to full term normal infants: a community based double blind, randomized, controlled, clinical trial.

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The study was aimed to test whether zinc supplementation, if initiated early, can prevent stunting and promote optimum body composition in full term infants. For this, full term pregnant women from low income urban community were enrolled and were followed-up for 24 months postpartum. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from maternal weight and height that were collected one month after delivery. Infants' weight, and length, head, chest and mid upper arm circumferences and skin fold thicknesses at triceps, biceps and subscapular area were collected at baseline (before randomization) and once in three months up till 24 months. Three hundred and twenty four infants were randomized and allocated to zinc (163) or placebo (161) groups respectively. Supplementation of zinc wa

SUBMITTER: Radhakrishna KV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3667840 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature