The Effects of an Oil and Wheat Flour Fortification Program on Pre-School Children and Women of Reproductive Age Living in Côte d'Ivoire, a Malaria-Endemic Area.

Repeating the regression model, but using only children who were negative for Plasmodium parasites, the effects of age and sex were removed, but the association between fortification category and mean Hb remained highly significant: children having access to flour with <24 mg/kg iron had Hb concentrations 15.1 g/L lower and those having access to flour with ≥24 to ≤48 mg/kg iron had Hb concentrations 16.2 g/L lower than those having access to flour with ≥48 mg/kg iron ( post hoc test results which show that both group means are p < 0.001 lower than the ≥48 mg/kg group mean) ( Table 3 ).

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