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Micronutrients and Anaemia

Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia remain as major health concerns for children in Bangladesh. Among the micronutrient interventions, supplementation with vitamin A to children aged less than five years has been the most successful, especially after distribution of vitamin A was combined with Na...

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Autores principales: Jamil, Kazi M., Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur, Bardhan, P.K., Khan, Ashraful Islam, Chowdhury, Fahima, Sarker, Shafiqul Alam, Khan, Ali Miraj, Ahmed, Tahmeed
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18831229
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author Jamil, Kazi M.
Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur
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Khan, Ashraful Islam
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Sarker, Shafiqul Alam
Khan, Ali Miraj
Ahmed, Tahmeed
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Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur
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description Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia remain as major health concerns for children in Bangladesh. Among the micronutrient interventions, supplementation with vitamin A to children aged less than five years has been the most successful, especially after distribution of vitamin A was combined with National Immunization Days. Although salt sold in Bangladesh is intended to contain iodine, much of the salt does not contain iodine, and iodine deficiency continues to be common. Anaemia similarly is common among all population groups and has shown no sign of improvement even when iron-supplementation programmes have been attempted. It appears that many other causes contribute to anaemia in addition to iron deficiency. Zinc deficiency is a key micronutrient deficiency and is covered in a separate paper because of its importance among new child-health interventions.
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spelling pubmed-27407052010-10-18 Micronutrients and Anaemia Jamil, Kazi M. Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur Bardhan, P.K. Khan, Ashraful Islam Chowdhury, Fahima Sarker, Shafiqul Alam Khan, Ali Miraj Ahmed, Tahmeed J Health Popul Nutr Article Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia remain as major health concerns for children in Bangladesh. Among the micronutrient interventions, supplementation with vitamin A to children aged less than five years has been the most successful, especially after distribution of vitamin A was combined with National Immunization Days. Although salt sold in Bangladesh is intended to contain iodine, much of the salt does not contain iodine, and iodine deficiency continues to be common. Anaemia similarly is common among all population groups and has shown no sign of improvement even when iron-supplementation programmes have been attempted. It appears that many other causes contribute to anaemia in addition to iron deficiency. Zinc deficiency is a key micronutrient deficiency and is covered in a separate paper because of its importance among new child-health interventions. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2008-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2740705/ /pubmed/18831229 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ahmed, Tahmeed
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