Daily Zinc but Not Multivitamin Supplementation Reduces Diarrhea and Upper Respiratory Infections in Tanzanian Infants: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial [Community and International Nutrition]

Conclusions: Daily zinc supplementation of Tanzanian infants beginning at the age of 6 wk may lower the burden of diarrhea and acute upper respiratory infections, but provision of MVs using the regimen in this trial did not confer additional benefit. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00421668.

Source: Journal of Nutrition - September 1, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: McDonald, C. M., Manji, K. P., Kisenge, R., Aboud, S., Spiegelman, D., Fawzi, W. W., Duggan, C. P. Tags: Community and International Nutrition Source Type: research