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　　Commentary: Zinc and child growth的论文 【关键词】 mentary 　　zinc is an essential nutrient, aintain the normal structure and/or function of multiple enzymes, including those that are involved in transcription and translation of geic material and ultimately, therefore, in cell division.1 early research in experimental animals demonstrated the critical importance of zinc for normal dietary intake and physical groight also influence the groay be inadequate3 and/or excessive zinc losses may occur due to frequent enteric infections.4 nevertheless, the lack of simple, objective biomarkers of zinc status has hindered the ability to implicate zinc nutriture unequivocally as a cause of groans. 　　in an attempt to shed more light on this topic, entation on children’s groeta-analysis, zinc supplementation produced a small, but highly significant, positive impact on children’s oting effect of zinc ean initial alnourished subjects, as evidenced by mean initial anthropometric z-scores (lt;2.0 z), the effect of zinc on grooderately large (effect size of ~0.5 sd units). 　　in this issue of the international journal of epidemiology, müller et al. report the results of a zinc intervention trial conducted in rural burkina faso,6 from ental zinc on the children’s groentioned meta-analysis, it is instructive to examine the details of the current report in relation to the findings of that revieethodological issues, such as differences in the dose, form, and means of delivering the zinc supplement, or the anthropometric techniques used to assess groay have affected their ability to respond to supplemental zinc. each of these points üller et al., 12.5 mg zinc onths of age. this level of supplementation is ean level offered, so it is unlikely that the dose of the supplement ents ption of other foods. although it is conceivable that other ponents of the diet may have interfered ental zinc, in previous studies included in the meta-analysis the authors rarely reported that they attempted to provide