Biofortified b-carotene rice improves vitamin A intake and reduces the prevalence of inadequacy among women and young children in a simulated analysis in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines
Background: Vitamin A deficiency continues to be a major public health problem affecting developing countries where people eat mostly rice as a staple food. In Asia, rice provides up to 80% of the total daily energy intake. Objective: We used existing data sets from Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Ph...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146393 |
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