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  • Title: Pattern of vitamin deficiencies among the malnourished preschool children in ICDS blocks of Jaipur city.
    Author: Chainani N, Sharma P, Meena N, Sharma U.
    Journal: Indian J Matern Child Health; 1994; 5(4):109-11. PubMed ID: 12290540.
    Abstract:
    In India, researchers compared data on 1000 malnourished preschool children from ICDS blocks of Jaipur slums with data on 5000 well-nourished preschool children attending well-baby clinics of Zenana Hospital and Mahila Chikitsalya and from kindergarten classes of 2 public schools of Jaipur. They aimed to compare the prevalence of vitamin deficiencies among the 2 groups of children. The well-nourished children had a much lower prevalence of vitamin deficiencies than the malnourished children: vitamin A deficiency = 1.8% vs. 15.7%, vitamin B = 0.4% vs. 7.6%, vitamin D deficiency = 2% vs. 11.9%, and vitamin C deficiency = 0 vs. 1.1%. Sex did not affect vitamin deficiency status. Vitamin D deficiency manifests itself in severe malnutrition only when dietary improvement causes a growth spurt.
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