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ey0015.13-21 | Growth and Development | ESPEYB15

13.21 Early childhood linear growth faltering in low-income and middle-income countries as a whole-population condition: analysis of 179 Demographic and Health Surveys from 64 countries (1993-2015)

DE Roth , A Krishna , M Leung , J Shi , DG Bassant , AJ Barros

To read the full abstract: Lancet Glob Health 2017; 5(12):e1249-e1257This paper adds to the understanding of the factors underlying stunting in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), a phenomenon that is adaptive to undernutrition, and associates with overall poorer health status and unfavorable social determinants of health. Previously thought to be secondary to predominantly individual...

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ey0016.13-16 | Micronutrients | ESPEYB16

13.16. Global prevalence and disease burden of vitamin D deficiency: a roadmap for action in low- and middle-income countries

DE Roth , SA Abrams , J Aloia , G Bergeron , MW Bourassa , KH Brown , MS Calvo , KD Cashman , G Combs , LM De-Regil , ME Jefferds , KS Jones , H Kapner , AR Martineau , LM Neufeld , RL Schleicher , TD Thacher , SJ Whiting

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2018 Oct;1430(1):4479. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13968 This technical report reviews the global prevalence and public health disease burden of vitamin D deficiency. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the working group of content experts from North America and Europe provide a roadmap outlining population-based strategies to impr...

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ey0016.2-17 | Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Growth | ESPEYB16

2.17. Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy and lactation and infant growth

DE Roth , SK Morris , S Zlotkin , AD Gernand , T Ahmed , SS Shanta , E Papp , J Korsiak , J Shi , MM Islam , I Jahan , FK Keya , AR Willan , R Weksberg , M Mohsin , QS Rahman , PS Shah , KE Murphy , J Stimec , LG Pell , H Qamar , A Al Mahmud

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2018 Aug 9;379(6):535546.This study tested whether vitamin D supplementation from mid pregnancy to delivery or 6 months post-partum had an effect on length-for-age z scores at 1 year or on other anthropometric measures from birth to 1 year.Bangladesh is a resource poor country where approximately 30% of newbor...

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ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

13.21 Early childhood linear growth faltering in low-income and middle-income countries as a whole-population condition: analysis of 179 Demographic and Health Surveys from 64 countries (1993-2015)

13.16. Global prevalence and disease burden of vitamin D deficiency: a roadmap for action in low- and middle-income countries

2.17. Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy and lactation and infant growth

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