Effects of an energy and micronutrient supplement on anthropometry in undernourished children in Indonesia.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Micronutrients.

This paper reports the effects of early supplementary feeding on body weight, length, head circumference and arm circumference among the children in the Pangalengan study.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were infants, both men and women.

A 12-month-old (n = 53) and an 18-month-old (n = 83) cohort were recruited from day-care centers.

Twenty children that received S belonged to the 12- and 18-month cohorts.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

The participants were allocated by chance, so the Micronutrients group and the comparison group should start out alike.

The sites were six tea plantations in Pangalengan, West Java.

Inclusion criteria were: no chronic disease; length-for-age < or = -1 standard deviation (s.d.) and weight-for-length between -1 and -2 s.d. of the median of the reference of the World Health Organization.

Length was measured with a portable measuring board; a Detecto scale with an accuracy of 0.1 kg was used for the measurement of body weight.

Arm and head circumferences were measured using similar fiberglass tapes.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Age Factors, Anthropometry, Child Development, Cohort Studies, Dietary Supplements, Eating and Energy Intake.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Micronutrients.

Results are reported in around 2 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2000 (European journal of clinical nutrition), a journal based in England.

More context: all human trials.