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. 2005 Jan;2(1):e1.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020001.

Micronutrient sprinkles to control childhood anaemia

Stanley H Zlotkin  1 , Claudia Schauer, Anna Christofides, Waseem Sharieff, Mélody C Tondeur, S M Ziauddin Hyder
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Micronutrient sprinkles to control childhood anaemia

Stanley H Zlotkin et al. PLoS Med. 2005 Jan.

Abstract

Over 750 million children have iron-deficiency anemia. A simple powdered sachet may be the key to addressing this global problem

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: Stanley Zlotkin is an occasional consultant to Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mead Johnson, and the Gerber Company (United States), and General Foods (Canada). He owns the intellectual property rights to Sprinkles. The H. J. Heinz Company is supporting the technical development of Sprinkles on a cost-recovery basis. Any profit from royalty fees on the technology transfer of Sprinkles is currently donated to the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation.

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Figure 1. Overlaid Quantile-Quantile Plots of Haemoglobin Concentrations at the End of Studies for Sprinkles and Ferrous Sulphate Drops
The graph shows that the two distributions overlap at all quantiles, thus proving that there is an equivalent response to the two treatments for haemoglobin concentrations. Circles represent individuals who received iron drops; crosses represent individuals who received Sprinkles.
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