Ruditser, Rebecca Fu, Xueyan Booth, Sarah L Liu, Minying Shen, Xiaohua Shea, M Kyla
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Enzyme-linked i2mmunosorbent assays (ELISAs) that measure circulating phylloquinone have become commercially available, but their validity is uncertain. The objective of this study was to compare plasma phylloquinone concentrations measured using two commercially available ELISAs with concentrations measured using a validated high-performance liqui...
Ketelings, Linsay Havermans, Remco C Kremers, Stef P J de Boer, Alie
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Consumer awareness of meat-associated health and environmental risks is increasing and motivates a shift toward consuming meat alternatives. This is also reflected in efforts invested in studying meat alternatives from the perspective of nutritional, environmental, and consumer sciences. Despite shared research interest, these studies cannot be rea...
Matchado, Andrew Smith, Joshua W. Schulze, Kerry J. Groopman, John D. Kortekangas, Emma Chaima, David Arnold, Charles D. Maleta, Kenneth Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn, Per
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Background Aflatoxin (AF) exposure is associated with child growth faltering in cross-sectional studies, with limited findings from longitudinal studies. Objectives To evaluate the relationship between maternal AF B1-lysine adduct concentration, child AF B1-lysine adduct concentration, and child growth in the first 30 mo of life. Methods AF B1-lysi...
Papanikolaou, Yanni Fulgoni, Victor L. III
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Although most US children do not meet recommendations for choline intake, there are also no data available assessing usual egg intake in younger children and choline adequacy. Therefore, data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001–2018 were analyzed to identify usual egg intake in infants (birth to 1 y; N = 4770) and young ...
Machado, Juliana Gonçalves Buccini, Gabriela Recine, Elisabetta
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Background Effective scale-up of multisectoral strategies aimed to prevent and treat childhood obesity has been a challenge in Brazil, the largest country in Latin America. Implementation Science methods, such as Net-Map, can identify key actors and opinion leaders (OLs) to advance the implementation and promote sustainability. Objectives This stud...
Coleman, Fiona M. Ahmed, Akhter U. Quisumbing, Agnes R. Roy, Shalini Hoddinott, John
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Background Recent evidence suggests that diet inequities between men and women may have diminished within rural Bangladeshi households. However, this has not been directly tested with appropriate physiologic adjustments and it is unclear whether changes have occurred across socioeconomic strata. Understanding intrahousehold dietary patterns at diff...
Dempsey, Kendra Mottola, Michelle F Atkinson, Stephanie A
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In trials testing the efficacy of diet and exercise modifications during pregnancy on health outcomes, assessment of participant adherence to interventions of diet and exercise is rarely reported, with few standard methods existing to measure adherence. We aimed to assess the maternal diet quality and create an algorithm to evaluate adherence to an...
Unger, Allison L. Astrup, Arne Feeney, Emma L. Holscher, Hannah D. Gerstein, Dana E. Torres-Gonzalez, Moises Brown, Katie
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An emerging body of scientific evidence demonstrates that the food matrix—the interaction among nutrients, bioactive components, and physical structure of a food—can affect health in significant, unexpected ways beyond its individual nutrients. In particular, research suggests that consumption of dairy foods such as milk, yogurt, and cheese may aff...
Workneh, Firehiwot Tsegaye, Sitota Amanuel, Hanna Eglovitch, Michelle Shifraw, Tigest Shiferie, Fisseha Tadesse, Amare W Worku, Alemayehu Isanaka, Sheila Lee, Anne Cc
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Nutrition during pregnancy has lifelong impacts on the mother and fetus. In Ethiopia, nearly a third of pregnant women experience undernutrition. When designing nutrition interventions during pregnancy, it is important to understand existing dietary perspectives and practices in local communities. To explore the processes that shape dietary perspec...
Dusingizimana, Theogene Jones, Andrew Vasanthakaalam, Hilda Kjellqvist, Tomas
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Background Biofortification, the process of enhancing the micronutrient content of staple crops, is a nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention with the potential to increase micronutrient intakes and improve health outcomes, especially among vulnerable populations. Although data are available on the number of farming households that grow biofo...