دورية أكاديمية
Soil Zinc Is Associated with Serum Zinc But Not with Linear Growth of Children in Ethiopia
| العنوان: | Soil Zinc Is Associated with Serum Zinc But Not with Linear Growth of Children in Ethiopia |
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| المؤلفون: | Tessema, Masresha, De Groote, Hugo, Brouwer, Inge D., Feskens, Edith J.M., Belachew, Tefera, Zerfu, Dilnesaw, Belay, Adamu, Demelash, Yoseph, Gunaratna, Nilupa S. |
| المصدر: | Nutrients 11 (2019) 2 ; ISSN: 2072-6643 |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ethiopia, linear growth, preschool children, serum zinc, soil fertility, soil zinc |
| الوصف: | To our knowledge, the relationships among soil zinc, serum zinc and children's linear growth have not been studied geographically or at a national level in any country. We use data from the cross-sectional, nationally representative Ethiopian National Micronutrient Survey (ENMS) (n = 1776), which provided anthropometric and serum zinc (n = 1171) data on children aged 6⁻59 months. Soil zinc levels were extracted for each child from the digital soil map of Ethiopia, developed by the Africa Soil Information Service. Children's linear growth was computed using length/height and age converted into Z-scores for height-for-age. Multi-level mixed linear regression models were used for the analysis. Nationally, 28% of children aged 6⁻59 months were zinc deficient (24% when adjusted for inflammation) and 38% were stunted. Twenty percent of households in the ENMS were located on zinc-deficient soils. Soil zinc (in mg/kg) was positively associated with serum zinc (in µg/dL) (b = 0.9, p = 0.020) and weight-for-height-Z-score (b = 0.05, p = 0.045) but linear growth was not associated with soil zinc (p = 0.604) or serum zinc (p = 0.506) among Ethiopian preschool children. Intervention studies are needed to determine whether there are causal links between soil and human zinc status. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://edepot.wur.nl/470008Test; https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/soil-zinc-is-associated-with-serum-zinc-but-not-with-linear-growtTest |
| DOI: | 10.3390/nu11020221 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11020221Test https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/soil-zinc-is-associated-with-serum-zinc-but-not-with-linear-growtTest |
| حقوق: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/ ; Wageningen University & Research |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.92DD8B9C |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.3390/nu11020221 |
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