Intervention effect on biomarkers of micronutrient status
TfR
After 26 weeks of intervention, we found no difference in PF, TfR and RBP in the MMB group compared with the UB group (
The effect of consuming micronutrient-fortified biscuits compared with unfortified biscuits on micronutrient biomarkers after 26 weeks of intervention in adolescent girls in Ghana: an intention-to-treat analysisMMB, multiple micronutrient-fortified biscuits; UB, unfortified biscuits.Outcomes variables were log-transformed (Ln), means are geometric means, and estimates were expressed as percentages increase or decrease.
Since some of the pre-menarche girls attained menarche before the end of the intervention, we repeated the analysis after re-classifying the girls at the endline as pre-to-pre-menarche, pre-to-post-menarche and post-to-post-menarche but similar results were observed for the pre-to-pre- and post-to-post-menarche groups. Although we observed an improvement in PF for MMB 