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Application of the Dietary Reference Intakes in developing a recommendation for pregnancy iron supplements in Canada

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An iron supplement of 16 mg/d throughout pregnancy is justified as both efficacious and safe for healthy women living in Canadian households and does not preclude the need for therapeutic iron doses for some individuals on the basis of iron status.
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This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2009-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reference Daily Intake & Dietary Reference Intake.

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Fetal regulation of iron transport during pregnancy

TL;DR: This article examines how iron is transferred from the maternal liver to the placenta, taken up, and transferred to the fetal liver, and considers the molecular mechanisms and how they are regulated.
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Canadian Consensus on Female Nutrition: Adolescence, Reproduction, Menopause, and Beyond

TL;DR: This guideline begins with an overview of guidance for all women, followed by chapters that examine the evidence and provide recommendations for the promotion of healthy nutrition and body weight at each life stage.
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Maternal Iron Status in Pregnancy and Long-Term Health Outcomes in the Offspring

TL;DR: Evidence from experimental animal models suggests that maternal ID during pregnancy is associated with fetal growth restriction, as well as offspring obesity and high blood pressure later in life, and the possible biological mechanisms may be due to ID-induced changes in placental structure and function, enzyme expression, nutrient absorption, and fetal organ development.
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Dietary reference intakes: vitamin A, vitamin K, arsenic, boron, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, vanadium, and zinc.

TL;DR: The DRIs represent the new approach adopted by the Food and Nutrition Board to providing quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes for use in a variety of settings, replacing and expanding on the past 50 years of periodic updates and revisions of the Recommended Dietary Allowances.
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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

TL;DR: The fourth edition of Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease follows the organization established in previous volumes, i.e., "Normal Nutrition," "Nutrition in Disease," and "Nut Nutrition in Periods of Physiologic Stress" Each of the 43 chapters is, in essence, a review of a given topic, with primary emphasis on nutritional principles rather than dietetics as mentioned in this paper.

Modern nutrition in health and disease

TL;DR: The concept of nutrition as a clinical subject has reached maturity and is well presented in an excellent book edited by two prominent nutritionists, Drs.
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Semiparametric Transformation Approach to Estimating Usual Daily Intake Distributions, A

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology for estimating usual intake distributions that allows for varying degrees of departure from normality and recognizes the measurement error associated with daily dietary intakes is presented, based on a sample of individuals with a small number of daily observations on each individual.
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A Semiparametric Transformation Approach to Estimating Usual Daily Intake Distributions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a methodology for estimating the usual intake distributions that allows for varying degrees of departure from normality and recognizes the measurement error associated with one-day dietary intakes.
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