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IMPACT OF NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION (EED) IN CHILDREN LIVING IN RURAL AREAS: A
Rizky Abi Rachmadi1, Yulia Ariani2,3, Fatima Safira Alatas4
1Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Background:
A staggering 99% of infant undernutrition mortality comes from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Despite multiple interventions focusing on nutrition adequacy, 2.7 million children worldwide remain associated with undernutrition-related mortality. The lack of impact from multiple interventions toward undernutrition reflects a strong reason to believe that EED is the missing link that sustains undernutrition in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). EED is a sub-clinical condition caused by repeated oral enteropathogenic and non-pathogenic fecal microbes exposure that causes intestinal villous malformation, multi-omics changes, chronic intestinal and systemic inflammation, and gut dysbiosis. EED impacts the absorptive capacity and the integrity of the gut, causing a cycle of undernutrition in children. There is currently no protocol for the diagnosis and treatment of EED, hence EED is widely believed to be highly prevalent and underdiagnosed in LMICs.
Objective:
To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review to study the impact of nutritional interventions on EED. Previous studies yielded inconsistent results, hence the synthesis of this information is essential in attaining a deeper understanding of EED to formulate new targets of intervention against child undernutrition.
Methods:
This systematic review is registered to PROSPERO (CRD42022363157) in accordance to PRISMA, using keywords referring to nutrient supplementation, EED, and child growth failure.
Results:
Eleven articles were eligible for review, comprising randomized controlled trials performed mainly in the African continent, with a total of 5689 healthy children eligible for analysis.
Conclusion:
The systematic review illustrates that nutritional interventions have a minimal impact on EED biomarkers and linear growth and reflects the importance of understanding better the mechanisms causing EED and its consequences. It appears that the anabolic contribution of nutrition intervention to child growth is negated by EED.
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