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Use of a novel supplementary food and measures to control inflammation in malnourished pregnant women in Sierra Leone to improve birth outcomes: study protocol for a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical effectiveness trial

BACKGROUND: The negative synergy between poor nutritional status and infectious diseases is doubly detrimental in pregnancy. In Sierra Leone, maternal malnutrition is amongst the highest in the world, while maternal mortality is high at 1320/100,000 live births and stunting in under-five is 37.9%, r...

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Autores principales: Hendrixson, D. Taylor, Koroma, Aminata Shamit, Callaghan-Gillespie, Meghan, Weber, Jacklyn, Papathakis, Peggy, Manary, Mark J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7050866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32153879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40795-018-0218-y