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Balancing omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, May 2015
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Title
Balancing omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF)
Published in
BMC Medicine, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-015-0352-1
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Authors

J Thomas Brenna, Peter Akomo, Paluku Bahwere, James A Berkley, Philip C Calder, Kelsey D Jones, Lei Liu, Mark Manary, Indi Trehan, André Briend

Abstract

Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs) are a key component of a life-saving treatment for young children who present with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition in resource limited settings. Increasing recognition of the role of balanced dietary omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in neurocognitive and immune development led two independent groups to evaluate RUTFs. Jones et al. (BMC Med 13:93, 2015), in a study in BMC Medicine, and Hsieh et al. (J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2015), in a study in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, reformulated RUTFs with altered PUFA content and looked at the effects on circulating omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) status as a measure of overall omega-3 status. Supplemental oral administration of omega-3 DHA or reduction of RUTF omega-6 linoleic acid using high oleic peanuts improved DHA status, whereas increasing omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid in RUTF did not. The results of these two small studies are consistent with well-established effects in animal studies and highlight the need for basic and operational research to improve fat composition in support of omega-3-specific development in young children as RUTF use expands.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/93.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 99 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 13%
Researcher 12 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Other 7 7%
Other 17 17%
Unknown 28 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 4%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 29 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2023.
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#1,373,698
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#28
of 85 outputs
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