INTRODUCTION The islandwide comprehensive supplementary feeding scheme, the 'Thriposha' programme has been in existence in the country for over three decades. However, its effectiveness in improving micronutrient status has not yet been evaluated. OBJECTIVE We examined the effects of 'Thriposha' on micronutrient status, assessed haematologically and biochemically, in young children. METHODS...

In this experimental work, the effect of vitamin and mineral concentrate P52-1 domestic production as part barley wheat compound feeds on growth dynamics young pigs their health indicators for experiment duration was studied. At same time, physiological parameters studied animals were considered. Morphobiochemical studies blood allowed to conclude that feed additive had a positive metabolism in...

AIMS Insulin is normally added to oral glucose-lowering drugs in people with type 2 diabetes when glycaemic control becomes suboptimal. We evaluated outcomes in people starting insulin therapy with neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH), detemir, glargine or premixed insulins. METHODS Insulin-naïve people with type 2 diabetes (n = 8009), ≥ 35 years old, HbA(1c) ≥ 6.5% and begun on NPH (n = 1463), d...

The present study was carried out to examine the effects of a vitamin premix (VP) reduction or withdrawal from finisher diet (29-43 days) on performance, immuno-competence, and characteristics of leg bones and meat lipid oxidation of chickens fed on corn-soybean meal based diet. A total of 900 male broiler chickens (Ross 308) were allocated to five treatment groups (0, 33%, 66%, 100% and 133% V...

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is treated with ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) containing a vitamin–mineral premix. Yet little known about micronutrient status in children SAM before and after treatment. We aimed to investigate vitamin B12 uncomplicated SAM, aged 6–59 months Burkina Faso, treatment standard or reduced dose of RUTF. Blood samples were collected at admission discharge. Ser...

AIM To compare using propensity score analysis the outcome of beginning insulin therapy with basal, premix, mealtime + basal or mealtime insulin on the basis of data from 3031 people from the observational CREDIT (Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation in People with Type 2 Diabetes on Insulin Therapy) study. This approach overcomes likely confounding in baseline and unknown characteristics common to o...

OBJECTIVE We compared two strategies initiating and intensifying insulin treatment and tested for noninferiority of premixed insulin to basal ± mealtime insulin analog in patients eating light breakfasts. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This randomized, open-label, 48-week study compared two algorithms. Up to three injections of insulin lispro mix 25 and/or insulin lispro mix 50 (premix; premixed...