Robert E. Black, Kenneth H. Brown, Stan Becker
Diarrhea and malnutrition are common in young children in developing countries and a reciprocal relationship has been postulated with diarrhea leading to malnutrition and malnutrition predisposing to diarrhea. To investigate the importance of malnutrition as a determining factor in diarrheal illness...
Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, A Hilaly, Syed Nazmul Huda et al.
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of children living in poverty. The family care indicators (FCIs) were developed to measure home stimulation in large populations and were derived from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). Th...
Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H Baqui, K. Zaman, Lars Åke Persson et al.
BACKGROUND Iron and zinc deficiency are prevalent during infancy in low-income countries. OBJECTIVES The objectives were to examine whether a weekly supplement of iron, zinc, iron+zinc, or a micronutrient mix (MM) of 16 vitamins and minerals would alter infant development and behavior. DESIGN The pa...
Ghose Bishwajit
Abstract Reducing hunger and malnutrition and improving food security have come to the forefront of global political agenda. In the wake of recent spells of food price hike, national and supranational development organizations and governments have begun to express serious concerns about the world's ...
Victor Owino, Tahmeed Ahmed, Michael Freemark, Paul Kelly et al.
Approximately 25% of the world’s children aged <5 years have stunted growth, which is associated with increased mortality, cognitive dysfunction, and loss of productivity. Reducing by 40% the number of stunted children is a global target for 2030. The pathogenesis of stunting is poorly unders...
Khalid Khan, Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Ershad Ahmed et al.
Drinking water manganese (WMn) is a potential threat to children’s health due to its associations with a wide range of outcomes including cognitive, behavioral and neuropsychological effects. Although adverse effects of Mn on cognitive function of the children indicate possible impact on their acade...
Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Natalie Valpiani, Kai Sun, Richard D. Semba et al.
In Bangladesh, rice prices are known to be positively associated with the prevalence of child underweight and inversely associated with household nongrain food expenditures, an indicator of dietary quality. The collection of reliable data on household expenditures is relatively time consuming and re...
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Marc Tebruegge, Sophie La Vincente, Stephen M. Graham et al.
OBJECTIVES: To quantify the degree by which moderate and severe degrees of malnutrition increase the mortality risk in pneumonia, to identify potential differences in the aetiology of pneumonia between children with and without severe malnutrition, and to evaluate the validity of WHO-recommended cli...
Md. Ashraful Islam, Mohammad Nurul Amin, Shafayet Ahmed Siddiqui, Md. Parvez Hossain et al.
Trans Fatty acids (TFAs) have long been used in food manufacturing due in part to their melting point at room temperature between saturated and unsaturated fats. However, increasing epidemiologic and biochemical evidence suggests that excessive trans fats in the diet are a significant risk factor fo...
Ayşe Ercümen, Amy J. Pickering, Laura H. Kwong, Benjamin F. Arnold et al.
in food (p < 0.05). E. coli in stored water and food increased with increasing E. coli in soil, ponds, source water and hands. We provide empirical evidence of fecal transmission in the domestic environment despite on-site sanitation. Animal feces contribute to fecal contamination, and fecal indicat...
Paolo Vineis, Queenie Chan, Aneire Khan
It is estimated that 884 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in the world. Increasing salinity of natural drinking water sources has been reported as one of the many problems that affect low-income countries, but one which has not been fully explored. This problem is exacerbate...
Akbar Hossain, Milan Skalický, Marián Brestič, Sagar Maitra et al.
The trace element selenium (Se) is a crucial element for many living organisms, including soil microorganisms, plants and animals, including humans. Generally, in Nature Se is taken up in the living cells of microorganisms, plants, animals and humans in several inorganic forms such as selenate, sele...
Robert E. Black, Kenneth H. Brown, Stan Becker, Mohammad Yunus
Longitudinal studies were done in two villages in rural Bangladesh to learn more about the interactions between infectious diseases and the nutritional status of children. An intensive system of surveillance was used to determine the occurrence and frequency of infectious diseases in a cohort of 197...
1. Strategies for preventing multi-micronutrient deficiencies: a review of experiences with food-based approaches in developing countries 2. Addressing micronutrient malnutrition to achieve nutrition security 3. Agricultural interventions and nutrition: lessons from the past and new evidence 4. A 3 ...
Raymond Guiteras, James Levinsohn, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Poor sanitation contributes to morbidity and mortality in the developing world, but there is disagreement on what policies can increase sanitation coverage. To measure the effects of alternative policies on investment in hygienic latrines, we assigned 380 communities in rural Bangladesh to different...