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Melissa F Young
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 98
Citations - 1475
Melissa F Young is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 67 publications receiving 885 citations.
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Patterns of stunting and wasting: potential explanatory factors
TL;DR: Use of the WHO standard calls for urgent attention to improving prenatal and infant nutrition and uncovers an alarming level of wasting in the young infant in India that use of the NCHS growth reference (based on bottle-fed infants) had masked.
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Maternal Nutrition and Birth Outcomes
TL;DR: This chapter summarizes the state of current knowledge on the role of maternal nutrition before and during pregnancy in determining birth outcomes especially preterm birth and small for gestational age with recommendations for action both for programs and future research.
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Maternal hemoglobin concentrations across pregnancy and maternal and child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Melissa F Young,Brietta M Oaks,Sonia Tandon,Reynaldo Martorell,Kathryn G. Dewey,Amanda Wendt +5 more
TL;DR: Pooled high‐quality individual‐level data analyses, as well as prospective cohort studies, would be valuable to inform the reevaluation of Hb cutoffs.
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Effectiveness evaluation of the food fortification program of Costa Rica: impact on anemia prevalence and hemoglobin concentrations in women and children
Reynaldo Martorell,Melany Ascencio,Luis Tacsan,Thelma Alfaro,Melissa F Young,O. Yaw Addo,Omar Dary,Rafael Flores-Ayala +7 more
TL;DR: In Costa Rica, reduced iron was replaced by ferrous fumarate in wheat flour in 2002 and ferrous bisglycinate was added to maize flour in 1999 and to liquid and powdered milk in 2001.
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Micronutrient deficiencies among preschool-aged children and women of reproductive age worldwide: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from population-representative surveys.
Gretchen A Stevens,Ty Beal,Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya,Hanqi Luo,Lynnette M. Neufeld,O. Yaw Addo,Seth Adu-Afarwuah,Silvia Alayon,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Kenneth H. Brown,Maria Elena Jefferds,Reina Engle-Stone,Wafaie W. Fawzi,Sonja Hess,Robert Johnston,Joanne Katz,Julia Krasevec,Christine McDonald,Zuguo Mei,Saskia J. M. Osendarp,Christopher J. Paciorek,Nicolai Petry,Christine M. Pfeiffer,María J Ramírez-Luzuriaga,Lisa M Rogers,Fabian Rohner,Vani Sethi,Parminder S. Suchdev,Masresha Tessema,Salvador Villapando,Frank T. Wieringa,Anne M Williams,Meseret Woldeyahannes,Melissa F Young +33 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used Bayesian hierarchical logistic regression to estimate the prevalence of deficiency in at least one of three micronutrients for preschool-aged children and for non-pregnant women of reproductive age.