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Early Invitation To Food And/Or Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation In Pregnancy Does Not Affect Body Composition In Offspring At 54 Months: Follow-Up Of The Minimat Randomized Trial, Bangladesh, Ashraful Islam Khan, Iqbal Kabir, Sophie Hawkesworth, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström, Shams Arifeen, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Lars Åke Persson
Early Invitation To Food And/Or Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation In Pregnancy Does Not Affect Body Composition In Offspring At 54 Months: Follow-Up Of The Minimat Randomized Trial, Bangladesh, Ashraful Islam Khan, Iqbal Kabir, Sophie Hawkesworth, Eva‐Charlotte Ekström, Shams Arifeen, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Lars Åke Persson
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Growth patterns in early life are associated with later health.The effect of nutrition duringin uterodevelopmenton later body composition is unclear. We evaluated whether prenatal early invitation to food and/or multiplemicronutrient supplementation (MMS) in pregnancy has an effect on offspring body composition at 54 monthsof age. In Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab trial (ISRCTN16581394) in Bangladesh, 4436pregnant women were randomised into six equally sized groups: double-masked supplementation with capsulesof either 30 mg Fe and 400mg folic acid, or 60 mg Fe and 400mg folic acid, or MMS (15 micronutrients), wascombined with a randomised early invitation (around 9 weeks) or …