Publications by authors named "I A Brouwer"
Vitamin C-Rich Guava Consumed with Mungbean Dal Reduces Anemia and Increases Hemoglobin but not Iron Stores: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Food-to-Food Fortification in Indian Children.
J Nutr
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- Adding vitamin C-rich fruits like guava to iron-containing meals, such as mungbean dal, may help improve hemoglobin levels and reduce anemia in children.
- A study with 200 rural school children in India found that eating mungbean dal with guava led to significant increases in hemoglobin and a decrease in anemia prevalence compared to eating mungbean dal alone.
- Although there was a positive effect on hemoglobin and anemia rates, the addition of guava did not significantly improve the overall body iron stores of the children.
Article Synopsis
- - This study aimed to evaluate how reliable automatic lesion segmentation tools are when used on MRI scans of people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) across different scanners, focusing on their repeatability and accuracy compared to manual segmentation methods.
- - Researchers scanned 30 pwMS using three different MRI machines (two 3.0 T and one 1.5 T) and employed various segmentation techniques, including both automated tools and manual methods, to measure their effectiveness.
- - Results showed that optimizing the segmentation settings for each specific scanner significantly improved accuracy (measured by the Dice similarity coefficient) for one of the software tools (LST) compared to using default settings or a combined approach.
Current food systems fail to provide equity, sustainability, and positive health outcomes, thus underscoring the critical need for their transformation. Intervening in food environments holds substantial promise for contributing to this much-needed transformation. Despite scholars and practitioners often recognizing the necessity for bottom-up approaches, there is a dearth of empirical investigations evaluating the potential of these approaches to contribute to food system transformations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDietary biodiversity, defined as the variety of consumed plants, animals and other organisms, can be measured by dietary species richness (DSR). This study investigated associations between DSR and diet quality in Dutch adults. Dietary intake data of 2078 Dutch participants, aged 19 to 79 years, were collected by the Dutch National Food Consumption Survey between 2012 and 2016 via two non-consecutive 24-h dietary recalls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Digital monitoring of people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) using smartphone-based monitoring tools is a promising method to assess disease activity and progression.
Objective: To study cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between active and passive digital monitoring parameters and MRI volume measures in PwMS.
Methods: In this prospective study, 92 PwMS were included.