Articles Tagged With: zinc
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Childhood Diarrhea Varies Geographically Within Africa
Each year, 30 million preschool-aged children still get sick with diarrhea and 330,000 die. Most diarrheal illness and death is concentrated in a few high-risk areas, including parts of Benin, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Targeting preventive and therapeutic interventions in areas of risk could markedly reduce morbidity and mortality.
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Zinc Supplementation for Prediabetes
Thirty milligrams of zinc sulphate over six months improved a variety of metabolic parameters in a Bangladeshi population with prediabetes.