• Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries 

      Sania, Ayesha; Sudfeld, Christopher R.; Danaei, Goodarz; Fink, Günther; McCoy, Dana C.; Zhu, Zhaozhong; Fawzi, Mary C. Smith; Akman, Mehmet; Arifeen, Shams E.; Barros, Aluisio J. D.; Bellinger, David C.; Black, Maureen M.; Bogale, Alemtsehay; Braun, Joseph M.; Van den Broek, Nynke; Carrara, Verena; Duazo, Paulita; Duggan, Christopher P.; Fernald, Lia C. H.; Gladstone, Melissa; Hamadani, Jena Derakhshani; Handal, Alexis J.; Harlow, Siobán; Hidrobo, Melissa; Kuzawa, Christopher W.; Kvestad, Ingrid; Locks, Lindsey; Manji, Karim; Masanja, Honorati; Matijasevich, Alicia; McDonald, Christine; McGready, Rose; Rizvi, Arjumand; Santos, Darci; Santos, Leticia; Save, Dilsad; Shapiro, Roger; Stoecker, Barbara; Strand, Tor A.; Taneja, Sunita; Tellez-Rojo, Martha-Maria; Tofail, Fahmida; Yousafzai, Aisha K.; Ezzati, Majid; Fawzi, Wafaie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Objective: To determine the magnitude of relationships of early life factors with child development in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Design: Meta-analyses of standardised mean differences (SMDs) estimated from ...
    • Factors determining cognitive, motor and language scores in low birth weight infants from North India 

      Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Taneja, Sunita; Ranjitkar, Suman; Mazumder, Sarmila; Bhandari, Nita; Dua, Tarun; Shrestha, Laxman; Strand, Tor Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Children born with low birth weight (LBW) tend to have lower neurodevelopmental scores compared to term normal birth weight children. It is important to determine factors that influence neurodevelopment in these ...
    • Vitamin B12, folate, and cognition in 6-to 9-year-olds: a randomized controlled trial 

      Kvestad, Ingrid; Taneja, Sunita; Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Hysing, Mari; Bhandari, Nita; Strand, Tor A (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Vitamin B12 and folate are important for normal brain development. Our objective for this study was to measure the effects of 6-month supplementation of vitamin B12 and/or folic acid in early ...
    • Vitamin-D status and neurodevelopment and growth in young north Indian children: a secondary data analysis 

      Chowdhury, Ranadip; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita; Kvestad, Ingrid; Strand, Tor A; Bhan, Maharaj Kishan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Abstract Background Vitamin-D deficiency has been linked with impaired development in animal studies; however, the evidence from human studies is scanty. Evidence as to whether vitamin-D deficiency during early ...