Marjorie J Haskell, Kazi M. Jamil, Ferdaus Hassan, Janet M Peerson et al.
Background Recent evidence suggests that the vitamin A equivalency of beta-carotene from plant sources is lower than previously estimated. Objective We assessed the effect of 60 d of daily supplementation with 750 microg retinol equivalents (RE) of either cooked, puréed sweet potatoes; cooked, purée...
Ann Ashworth, Roger Shrimpton, Kazi Jamil
Table of Contents Summary 86 1. Background 88 1.1 History and development of growth monitoring programmes 88 1.2 Objectives of growth monitoring 89 2. Expected benefits of growth monitoring and growth promotion 90 3. Objectives of this review 91 4. Methodology 91 5. Evidence of effectiveness of grow...
Joanne E Arsenault, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, M Munirul Islam, M. Belal Hossain et al.
Documentation of micronutrient intake inadequacies among developing country populations is important for planning interventions to control micronutrient deficiencies. The objective of this study was to quantify micronutrient intakes by young children and their primary female caregivers in rural Bang...
Joanne E Arsenault, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, M. Belal Hossain, M. Munirul Islam et al.
Rural Bangladeshi populations have a high risk of zinc deficiency due to their consumption of a predominantly rice-based diet with few animal-source foods. Breeding rice for higher zinc content would offer a sustainable approach to increase the population's zinc intakes. The objectives of the study ...
Ridwanur Rahman, Vishal Goyal, Rashidul Haque, Kazi M. Jamil et al.
BACKGROUND: AmBisome therapy for VL has an excellent efficacy and safety profile and has been adopted as a first-line regimen in Bangladesh. Second-line treatment options are limited and should preferably be given in short course combinations in order to prevent the development of resistant strains....
Tami Turner, Betty J. Burri, Kazi Jamil, Maleka Jamil
Background The potential of β-cryptoxanthin (CX)-rich foods to form vitamin A (VA) in humans in not well understood. Objective We measured the effects of consuming CX- and β-carotene (BC)-rich foods on plasma and breast milk VA and carotenoids in lactating women with low VA status. Design Participan...
Md Iqbal Hossain, Nina S. Dodd, Tahmeed Ahmed, Golam Mothabbir Miah et al.
Children with severe acute malnutrition, defined as weight-for-height 70% of the reference median, and (b) the mother or caretaker has received specific training on appropriate feeding and was motivated to follow the advice given. Of all the admitted children, 7.6% of parents insisted for dischargin...
Nadia Jamil, Huan Feng, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Imtiaz Ahmed Choudhury et al.
About 20 million rural Bangladeshis continue to drink well water containing >50 μg/L arsenic (As). This analysis argues for reprioritizing interventions on the basis of a survey of wells serving a population of 380,000 conducted one decade after a previous round of testing overseen by the government...
Alaullah Sheikh, Md Saruar Bhuiyan, Farhana Khanam, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
Many currently available diagnostic tests for typhoid fever lack sensitivity and/or specificity, especially in areas of the world where the disease is endemic. In order to identify a diagnostic test that better correlates with typhoid fever, we evaluated immune responses to Salmonella enterica serov...
Jordan P. Mills, Gaston A. Tumuhimbise, Kazi M. Jamil, Sagar K. Thakkar et al.
Orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) is an important source of beta-carotene (betaC). Provitamin A bioefficacy from plant foods is influenced by dietary fat and fiber. We fed 3% OFSP powder diets with varying amounts of fat and soluble fiber to vitamin A (VA)-depleted Mongolian gerbils (n = 85) for 3 ...
Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, Kazi M. Jamil, P K Bardhan, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
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...
Kazi Jamil, Kenneth H. Brown, Maleka Jamil, Janet M Peerson et al.
We assessed the effect of daily consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP), with or without added fat, on the vitamin A (VA) status of Bangladeshi women with low initial VA status. Women (n = 30/group) received one of the following for 6 d/wk over 10 wk: 1) 0 μg retinol activity equivalents...
Kazi Jamil, Rashidul Haque, Ridwanur Rahman, Maryam Faiz et al.
BACKGROUND: This study was conducted in Bangladeshi patients in an outpatient setting to support registration of Paromomycin Intramuscular Injection (PMIM) as a low-cost treatment option in Bangladesh. METHODOLOGY: This Phase IIIb, open-label, multi-center, single-arm trial assessed the efficacy and...
Jamil A. Shilpi, Mobeen Islam, Md Morsaline Billah, Kazi Mohammed Didarul Islam et al.
Mangrove plants are specialised plants that grow in the tidal coasts of tropic and subtropic regions of the world. Their unique ecology and traditional medicinal uses of mangrove plants have attracted the attention of researchers over the years, and as a result, reports on biological activity of man...
Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Joanne E Arsenault, M Munirul Islam, M. Belal Hossain et al.
Maternal fat intake and adipose reserves are major sources of PUFA during lactation. The present study examined the cross-sectional relationship between prolonged breast-feeding and maternal BMI, assessed adequacy of fat intake among lactating and non-lactating mothers of children 24-48 months of ag...
Marjorie J Haskell, Kazi Jamil, Janet M Peerson, Mohammed A Wahed et al.
The estimated average requirement (EAR) for vitamin A (VA) of adult males is based on the amount of dietary VA required to maintain adequate function and provide a modest liver VA reserve (0.07 μmol/g). In the present study, the paired-deuterated retinol dilution technique was used to estimate chang...
Md Gulam Musawwir Khan, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Milka Patracia Podder, Makoto Itoh et al.
Diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) by demonstration of parasites in tissue smears obtained from bone marrow, spleen or lymph nodes is risky, painful, and difficult. The rK-39 strip test is widely used for the diagnosis of VL using blood/serum samples in endemic countries. The aim of the study ...
Partho Ghose, Khondokar Oliullah, Md. Kawsher Mahbub, Milon Biswas et al.
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Kazi Jamil Hasan, Md. Ismail Khan et al.
Co-management of forest protected areas (PA) in Bangladesh was initiated in 2004 with the aim of involving forest-dependent people in the PA governance for the conservation of forest resources. This study was conducted in two deliberately selected PA (Lawachara national park and Teknaf wildlife sanc...
Lena Davidsson, Shafiqual Alam Sarker, Kazi Asif Jamil, Shamima Sultana et al.
Background Non-water-soluble iron compounds have been reported to be less well absorbed than ferrous sulfate in young children, and concern has been raised about their usefulness as food fortificants. Objective The objective was to evaluate the usefulness of ferrous fumarate and ferric pyrophosphate...