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Kyly C. Whitfield
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Applied Human Nutrition, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Geoffry Smith
Roles Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations International Life Sciences Institute (Southeast Asia Region), Singapore, Essential Micronutrients Foundation, Singapore
Chhoun Chamnan
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision
Affiliation: Department of Post-Harvest Technologies and Quality Control, Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Crystal D. Karakochuk
Roles Conceptualization
Affiliation: Food, Nutrition, and Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Prak Sophonneary
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation
Affiliation: National Nutrition Programme, Maternal and Child Health Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Khov Kuong
Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources
Affiliations Department of Post-Harvest Technologies and Quality Control, Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marjoleine Amma Dijkhuizen
Roles Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation: Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rathavuth Hong
Roles Data curation
Affiliation: ICF International, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
Jacques Berger
Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision
Affiliation: Institute of Research for Development (IRD), UMR-204, IRD-UM-SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Tim J. Green
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision
Affiliations Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children Theme, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Discipline of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Frank Tammo Wieringa
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Institute of Research for Development (IRD), UMR-204, IRD-UM-SupAgro, Montpellier, France
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6010-355XAbstract
Background
Thiamine deficiency is thought to be an issue in Cambodia and throughout Southeast Asia due to frequent clinical reports of infantile beriberi. However the extent of this public health issue is currently unknown due to a lack of population-representative data. Therefore we assessed the thiamine status (measured as erythrocyte thiamine diphosphate concentrations; eThDP) among a representative sample of Cambodian women of childbearing age (15-49 y) and their young children (6-69 mo).
Methodology/Principle findings
Samples for this cross-sectional analysis were collected as part of a national...