Dietary diversity cutoff values predicting anemia varied between mid and term of pregnancy: a prospective cohort study.
CONCLUSION: The cutoff for WIDD score predicting risk of anemia varied significantly, increasing from three to four, between mid and term of pregnancy. Additional population-based observational and experimental studies validating the metrics are needed before policy level recommendations.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02620943.
PMID: 31836026 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zerfu TA, Baye K, Faber M Tags: J Health Popul Nutr Source Type: research
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