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Cohort Profile: The Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) Nutrition Trial Cohort Study

2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ije/dyn028

ISSN

1464-3685

Autores

Aryeh D. Stein, Paúl Melgar, John Hoddinott, Reynaldo Martorell,

Tópico(s)

Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Resumo

In the mid-1960s, protein deficiency was seen as themost important nutritional problem facing the poor inthe developing countries, and there was considerableconcernthatthisdeficiencyaffectedchildren’sabilitytolearn. The Institute of Nutrition of Central America andPanama (INCAP), based in Guatemala, became thelocusofaseriesofstudiesonthissubject,thatinformedthe development of a large-scale randomized nutri-tional intervention trial that ran from 1969 to 1977.

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