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. 2012;9(9):e1001314.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001314. Epub 2012 Sep 18.

Lipid-based nutrient supplements: how can they combat child malnutrition?

Kathryn G Dewey  1 , Mary Arimond
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Lipid-based nutrient supplements: how can they combat child malnutrition?

Kathryn G Dewey et al. PLoS Med. 2012.

Abstract

Kathryn Dewey and Mary Arimond discuss new research in PLOS Medicine that assesses the effect of blanket provision of ready-to-use supplementary food to children at high risk of malnutrition in Chad, and highlight some of the challenges of investigating the efficacy of supplementary foods for malnourished children.

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Conflict of interest statement

Neither author has a competing financial interest. Kathryn Dewey is Principal Investigator and Mary Arimond is Project Manager for the International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Project (http://www.iLiNS.org), an on-going series of efficacy trials using “small-quantity” LNS. The supplements used in these trials were developed in collaboration with Nutriset and are purchased from Nutriset for the trials. A representative from Nutriset serves on the iLiNS Project Steering Committee, but the company had no role in study design and will have no role in analysis of results. The iLiNS Project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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