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Biofortified β-carotene rice improves vitamin A intake and reduces the prevalence of inadequacy among women and young children in a simulated analysis in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines(1)
Background: Vitamin A deficiency continues to be a major public health problem affecting developing countries where people eat mostly rice as a staple food. In Asia, rice provides up to 80% of the total daily energy intake. Objective: We used existing data sets from Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Ph...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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American Society for Nutrition
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4997296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27510534 http://dx.doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.115.129270 |