Prenatal nutrition supplementation and growth biomarkers in preadolescent Bangladeshi children: A birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the usefulness of biomarkers to study the influence of prenatal nutrition supplementation in improving child growth. Anthropometry is not always straightforward to understand how nutrition might impact growth, especially in settings with high rates of malnutrition and infections. We examined the effects of prenatal supplementation on growth and growth biomarkers and the relationship between anthropometric measures and growth biomarkers of children at 4.5 and 9 years of age. Children were enrolled from a longitudinal cohort, where mothers were randomized into daily supplementation with either early-food (≤9 gestation week [GW]) or usual-food (~20 GW) (608 kcal 6 days/week); they were further randomized to receive 30-mg or 60-mg iron with 400-μg folic acid, or multiple

SUBMITTER: Siddiqua TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8710124 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature