Search Results - "Prado, Elizabeth"
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Nutrition and brain development in early life
Published in Nutrition reviews (01-04-2014)“…Presented here is an overview of the pathway from early nutrient deficiency to long‐term brain function, cognition, and productivity, focusing on research from…”
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Children Staying Smaller but Growing Smarter Beyond the First 1000 Days
Published in The Journal of nutrition (01-07-2021)Get more information
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The effect of eggs on early child growth in rural Malawi: the Mazira Project randomized controlled trial
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-10-2019)“…Stunted growth is a significant public health problem in many low-income countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of 1 egg per day on child…”
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Maternal biomarker patterns for metabolism and inflammation in pregnancy are influenced by multiple micronutrient supplementation and associated with child biomarker patterns and nutritional status at 9-12 years of age
Published in PloS one (07-08-2020)“…Maternal nutritional status influences fetal development and long-term risk for adult non-communicable diseases. However, the underlying mechanisms remain…”
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Do effects of early life interventions on linear growth correspond to effects on neurobehavioural development? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in The Lancet global health (01-10-2019)“…Faltering in linear growth and neurobehavioural development during early childhood are often assumed to have common causes because of their consistent…”
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Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements for the prevention of child malnutrition and promotion of healthy development: overview of individual participant data meta-analysis and programmatic implications
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-11-2021)“…Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs) were designed to provide multiple micronutrients within a food base that also provides energy,…”
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Measuring the implementation of early childhood development programs
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (01-05-2018)“…In this paper we describe ways to measure variables of interest when evaluating the implementation of a program to improve early childhood development (ECD)…”
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Choline and docosahexaenoic acid during the first 1000 days and children’s health and development in low- and middle-income countries
Published in Nutrition reviews (10-03-2022)“…Abstract Choline and DHA are nutrients that, when provided during the first 1000 days from conception to age 2 years, may have beneficial effects on child…”
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Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements for children age 6–24 months: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of effects on developmental outcomes and effect modifiers
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-11-2021)“…Small-quantity (SQ) lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNSs) provide many nutrients needed for brain development. We aimed to generate pooled estimates of the…”
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Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child anemia and micronutrient status: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-11-2021)“…Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs) have been shown to reduce the prevalence of child anemia and iron deficiency, but effects on other…”
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Effects of maternal and child lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant development: a randomized trial in Malawi
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-03-2016)“…Maternal and infant undernutrition is associated with poor infant development; however, few studies have examined the impact of combined pre- and postnatal…”
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Associations of human milk oligosaccharides and bioactive proteins with infant growth and development among Malawian mother-infant dyads
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-01-2021)“…Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and bioactive breast milk proteins have many beneficial properties. Information is sparse regarding associations between…”
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Maternal Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Stabilizes Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number in Pregnant Women in Lombok, Indonesia
Published in The Journal of nutrition (01-08-2019)“…The Supplementation with Multiple Micronutrients Intervention Trial (SUMMIT) in Lombok, Indonesia showed that maternal multiple micronutrients (MMN), as…”
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Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-11-2021)“…Meta-analyses show that small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNSs) reduce child stunting and wasting. Identification of subgroups who benefit…”
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The cost-effectiveness of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements for prevention of child death and malnutrition and promotion of healthy development: modelling results for Uganda
Published in Public health nutrition (01-10-2023)“…Objective:Recent meta-analyses demonstrate that small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) for young children significantly reduce child…”
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Early Child Development Outcomes of a Randomized Trial Providing 1 Egg Per Day to Children Age 6 to 15 Months in Malawi
Published in The Journal of nutrition (01-07-2020)“…Eggs are a rich source of nutrients important for brain development, including choline, riboflavin, vitamins B-6 and B-12, folate, zinc, protein, and DHA. Our…”
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Selecting measures for the neurodevelopmental assessment of children in low- and middle-income countries
Published in Child neuropsychology (03-10-2017)“…Diseases affecting millions of children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as malnutrition, micronutrient deficiency, malaria, and HIV, can lead…”
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Sustained effects of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements provided during the first 1000 days on child growth at 9-11 y in a randomized controlled trial in Ghana
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-02-2024)“…There is limited research on whether nutritional supplementation in the first 1000 d affects long-term child outcomes. We previously demonstrated that pre- and…”
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Maternal depression is the predominant persistent risk for child cognitive and social-emotional problems from early childhood to pre-adolescence: A longitudinal cohort study
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-11-2021)“…Brain development occurs rapidly during early childhood and continues throughout middle childhood. Early and later windows of opportunity exist to alter…”
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Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation and other biomedical and socioenvironmental influences on children's cognition at age 9–12 years in Indonesia: follow-up of the SUMMIT randomised trial
Published in The Lancet global health (01-02-2017)“…Summary Background Brain and cognitive development during the first 1000 days from conception are affected by multiple biomedical and socioenvironmental…”
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