The Effect of Intermittent Antenatal Iron Supplementation on Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Rural Viet Nam: A Cluster Randomised Trial

Beverley-Anne Biggs and colleagues conduct a community-based cluster randomized trial in rural Viet Nam to compare the effect of antenatal iron-folic acid supplementation taken daily or twice weekly on maternal and infant outcomes. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

• Publication year

  2013

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  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2013-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001470PMID 23853552PMCID 3708703
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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