Effect of oral nutritional supplementation on growth and recurrent upper respiratory tract infections in picky eating children at nutritional risk: a randomized, controlled trial

Objectives To evaluate the effect of oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) plus dietary counselling (DC) (intervention) versus DC alone (control) on growth and upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) in nutritionally at-risk, picky eating children in India. Methods We performed a 90-day, prospecti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of international medical research 2018-06, Vol.46 (6), p.2186-2201
Hauptverfasser: Ghosh, Apurba K., Kishore, Bala, Shaikh, Irfan, Satyavrat, Vinita, Kumar, Anil, Shah, Tapan, Pote, Prahlad, Shinde, Sandeep, Berde, Yatin, Low, Yen Ling, Tan, Verena M.H., Huynh, Dieu T. T.
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Zusammenfassung:Objectives To evaluate the effect of oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) plus dietary counselling (DC) (intervention) versus DC alone (control) on growth and upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) in nutritionally at-risk, picky eating children in India. Methods We performed a 90-day, prospective, randomized, controlled trial. A total of 255 children aged 24–72 months with a weight-for-age z-score ≥−2 and
ISSN:0300-0605
1473-2300
DOI:10.1177/0300060518757355