Evaluation of the Efficacy of Different Strategies to Treat Anemia in Mexican Children

Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anemia

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Iron; Dietary Supplement: Iron and ascorbic acid fortified water; Dietary Supplement: Multiple micronutrients supplement; Dietary Supplement: Iron plus folic acid supplement; Dietary Supplement: micronutrient fortified porridge powder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00822380

FNN2002-07

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anemia continues to be a major public health problem in many regions of the world and it is still not clear which strategy is more effective in children population in terms of adherence and efficacy. The objective was to evaluate the efficacy and acceptance of several strategies that have been recently recommended to treat anemia on anemic children (6 to 43 mo):Iron supplement, iron+folic acid supplement, a multiple micronutrients supplement a micronutrient fortified complementary food in the form of porridge powder or zinc+iron+ascorbic acid fortified water.

Enrollment: 680 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 42 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hemoglobin less than 11.7g/dL and above 7.0g/dL

Exclusion criteria

• Breastfeeding
• Chronic gastroenteritis
• Any other severe illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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680 participants in 1 patient group

Anemic children

Experimental group

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: micronutrient fortified porridge powder

Dietary Supplement: Iron and ascorbic acid fortified water

Dietary Supplement: Iron plus folic acid supplement

Dietary Supplement: Iron

Dietary Supplement: Multiple micronutrients supplement