A Review in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition explains the association between high dietary diversity and micronutrient adequacy in children under 5 years old and how it could be used to identify micronutrient inadequacy risk in children.
, around 53% of the included studies used WHO guidelines for the definition of DD and MDA and about 26% of the studies used Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines. According to WHO guidelines, the consumption of four or more food groups of seven food groups was defined as minimum dietary diversity or good DD.
Above 57% of the studies were conducted in low-income countries and the studies were from both rural and urban regions. Results of the multivariate analysis were considered to evaluate the relation of the DDS with micronutrient adequacy, in this review. Except for one, all of the studies considered covariates such as age, sex, and energy intake in the analysis., totally, seven studies evaluated the relationship of DD with micronutrient adequacy in infants.
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