TY - JOUR
AU1 - Friedrich, M.J.
AB - News & Analysis Global Health Zero Cases of Guinea Worm Disease ratedwithMMNs,includingretinol,vitaminB , in Mali and zinc, for the same time period. Ten years Mali reported no cases of Guinea worm dis- later, the researchers looked at how MMN ease (dracunculiasis) in 2016, according to supplementation, as well as early socioenvi- provisional figures reported by the coun- ronmental and additional biomedical fac- try’s ministry of health and tracked by the tors,affectedcognitivedevelopmentinaran- Carter Center. Worldwide, only 25 cases of domly selected sample of 2879 children who the disease were reported in 2016 in 3 were between the ages of 9 and 12 years and countries—Chad(16),Ethiopia(3),andSouth whose mothers had participated in the Sudan (6)—and these occurred in 19 iso- SUMMITstudy.Socioenvironmentaldetermi- lated villages. The 2016 figure is up slightly nants included home environment, parental from the 22 cases that occurred in 2015. education,socioeconomicstatus,andmater- Guinea worm disease is spread by drink- nal depression, and biomedical factors in- ing water contaminated by the guinea worm cludedanthropometry,postnatalgrowth,and larvae. The larvae grow and mate within the preterm birth. host and after about a year a worm, some- The associations were assessed in 3 dif- Mali has reported zero cases of Guinea worm times a meter long, 
TI - Boosting Cognitive Development in Children
JF - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.2017.2347
DA - 2017-03-21
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/boosting-cognitive-development-in-children-q0lZX0Oh65
SP - 1109
EP - 1109
VL - 317
IS - 11
DP - DeepDyve
ER -