Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Yunwen Ji, Jeremy Coyle, Ivana Malenica, Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Jessica Anne Grembi, James A Platts-Mills, Eric R Houpt, Jay P Graham, Shahjahan Ali, Md Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Alauddin, Syeda L Famida, Salma Akther, Md Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Abul K Shoab, Mahbubur Rahman, Md Ohedul Islam, Rana Miah, Mami Taniuchi, Jie Liu, Sarah Alauddin, Christine P Stewart, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford, Alan E Hubbard, Andrew N Mertens, Audrie Lin
BACKGROUND: Water, sanitation, hygiene (WSH), nutrition (N), and combined (N+WSH) interventions are often implemented by global health organizations, but WSH interventions may insufficiently reduce pathogen exposure, and nutrition interventions may be modified by environmental enteric dysfunction (EED), a condition of increased intestinal permeability and inflammation. This study investigated the heterogeneity of these treatments' effects based on individual pathogen and EED biomarker status with respect to child linear growth...
March 26, 2024: medRxiv