S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Lars Åke Persson, Rajiv Chowdhury, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström
Side-effects of iron supplementation lead to poor compliance. A weekly-dose schedule of iron supplementation rather than a daily-dose regimen has been suggested to produce fewer side-effects, thereby achieving a higher compliance. This study compared side-effects of iron supplementation and their im...
Hedy Ip, S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Farhana Haseen, Md Mijanur Rahman et al.
Background/objectives Despite repeated public commitments and availability of various forms of iron supplements, rates of anaemia in developing countries remain high. A major reason for this lack of success has been poor adherence. The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of dail...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Farhana Haseen, Marufa Aziz Khan, Tom Schaetzel et al.
Adolescent girls have high nutrient needs and are susceptible to micronutrient deficiencies. The objective of this study was to test the effect of a multiple-micronutrient-fortified beverage on hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations, micronutrient status, and growth among adolescent girls in rural Banglades...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Farhana Haseen, Mizanur Rahman, Mélody Tondeur et al.
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of commonly suggested public health interventions to control childhood iron-deficiency anemia has been low. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether iron provided in Sprinkles daily or in a higher dose once weekly affected hemoglobin, serum ferritin levels, and serum transferrin...
Nuzhat Choudhury, Ashley Aimone, S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Stanley Zlotkin
BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency is a major cause of anemia and the most prevalent nutrient deficiency among pregnant women in developing countries. The use of iron and folic acid supplements to treat and prevent iron-deficiency anemia has limited effectiveness, mainly due to poor adherence. Home fortifi...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Lars Åke Persson, Rajiv Chowdhury, Bo Lönnerdal et al.
Background: Anaemia and iron-deficiency anaemia in women are global problems that are prevalent throughout the reproductive cycle. Data are scarce on whether iron supplementation in pregnancy and puerperium has a sustained effect on haemoglobin concentration. Objective: To assess whether there is a ...
Sabah Tarannum, S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Amr Chowdhury
FOREWORD Empirical evidence points to a causal relationship between the socioeconomic status of individuals and communities and their health. Indeed improvement in health is expected to follow socioeconomic development. Yet this hypothesis has rarely been tested; at least it has not undergone the sc...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Chowdhury S B JalaI, Rita Das Roy, Mizanur Rahman
Wheat soya blended (WSB) food was distributed ~ong 74,000 'poorest of the poor' \nhouseholds in 5 highly flood-affected districts in Bangladesh under an agreement signed \nin May 1999 between BRAC and World Food Programme. Each selected household \nreceived 10 kg WSB per month, and only ...
Sabrina Rasheed, Masuma Khatun, S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, A.M.R. Choudhury et al.
The number of elderly people in the world increased from 13 to 45 million between.1950 \nand 1985. In Bangladesh, however, the absolute number of elderly registered a slight \ndecline. The negative growth rate reflects in part, poor health conditions and consequently \nhigh adult mortali...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Lars Åke Persson, A.M.R. Chowdhury, Bo Lönnerdal et al.
Background: Anaemia and iron-deficiency anaemia in women are global problems that are prevalent throughout the reproductive cycle. Data are scarce on whether iron supplementation in pregnancy and puerperium has a sustained effect on haemoglobin concentration. Objective: To assess whether there is a ...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Rita Das Roy, Chowdhury Sb JalaI, H. K. M. Yusuf
The state of nutrition in Bangladesh is precariously poor. The diet, being heavily deficient \nin calories and seriously imbalanced, leads to the obvious consequences of widespread \nprotein-energy and micronutrient malnutrition among infants, children and women. This \nis a great loss o...
Rajiv Chowdhury, S.M. Ziauddin Hyder, Zeba Mahmud, Sadia Chowdhury
Millions of people suffer and many of them die from malnutrition in \ndeveloping countries. BRAC, a non-governmental organisation in \nBangladesh, has made significant progress towards planning and \nimplementing nutrition programmes. Targeted nutrition interventions \nincorporated i...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder
This study describes the anaemia prevalence and associated factors among pregnant \nwomen in a rural community in Bangladesh. The study women were recruited from \n50 BRAC antenatal care centres. A total of 216 pregnant women during second \ntrimester of pregnancy were included from rura...
Masuma Khatun, Sabah Tarannum, S.M. Ziauddin Hyder
Since 1992, BRAC and ICDDR,B have been implementing a joint research project in \nMadab, Bangladesh to assess the pathways of impact of BRAC's dewlopmcnt \ninterventions on human wen-being. The project identified improved mmi1ioDal status as \none of the components of human wen-being. Th...
S.M. Ziauddin Hyder
This is the first report of a collaborative research project between the Research \nand Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC, Bangladesh and the Department of \nEpidemiology and Public Health, Umea University, Sweden. The study aimed at \ninvestigating the prevalence · of anaemia among men an...