Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Bhandari, Nita"

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    • Anthropometric Indicators as Predictors of Mortality in Early Life Among Low Birthweight Indian Infants 

      Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Kumar, Mohan; Sinha, Bireshwar; Shaikh, Saijuddin; Mazumder, Sarmila; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Low birthweight (LBW) babies (<2.5 kg) are at higher risk of mortality and weight for height z score is currently recommended for identifying infants at risk of mortality. Objective: To compare different ...

    • Assembling a global database of child pneumonia studies to inform WHO pneumonia management algorithm: Methodology and applications 

      Martin, Helena; Falconer, Jennifer; Addo-Yobo, Emmanuel; Aneja, Satinder; Arroyo, Luis Martinez; Asghar, Rai; Awasthi, Shally; Banajeh, Salem; Bari, Abdul; Basnet, Sudha; Bavdekar, Ashish; Bhandari, Nita; Bhatnagar, Shinjini; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Brooks, Abdullah; Chadha, Mandeep; Chisaka, Noel; Chou, Monidarin; Clara, Alexey W.; Colbourn, Tim; Cutland, Clare; D'Acremont, Valérie; Echavarria, Marcela; Gentile, Angela; Gessner, Brad; Gregory, Christopher J.; Hazir, Tabish; Hibberd, Patricia L.; Hirve, Siddhivinayak; Hooli, Shubhada; Iqbal, Imran; Jeena, Prakash; Kartasasmita, Cissy B.; King, Carina; Libster, Romina; Lodha, Rakesh; Lozano, Juan M.; Lucero, Marilla; Lufesi, Norman; MacLeod, William B.; Madhi, Shabir Ahmed; Mathew, Joseph L.; Maulen-Radovan, Irene; McCollum, Eric D.; Mino, Greta; Mwansambo, Charles; Neuman, Mark I.; Nguyen, Ngoc Tuong Vy; Nunes, Marta C.; Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn; O'Grady, Kerry-Ann F; Pape, Jean-William; Paranhos-Baccala, Glaucia; Patel, Archana; Picot, Valentina Sanchez; Rakoto-Andrianarivelo, Mala; Rasmussen, Zeba; Rouzier, Vanessa; Russomando, Graciela; Ruvinsky, Raul O.; Sadruddin, Salim; Saha, Samir K.; Santosham, Mathuram; Singhi, Sunit; Soofi, Sajid; Strand, Tor Arne; Sylla, Mariam; Thamthitiwat, Somsak; Thea, Donald M.; Turner, Claudia; Vanhems, Philippe; Wadhwa, Nitya; Wang, Jianwei; Zaman, Syed Ma; Campbell, Harry; Nair, Harish; Qazi, Shamim Ahmad; Nisar, Yasir Bin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background The existing World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonia case management guidelines rely on clinical symptoms and signs for identifying, classifying, and treating pneumonia in children up to 5 years old. We aimed ...

    • The assessment of developmental status using the Ages and Stages questionnaire-3 in nutritional research in north Indian young children 

      Kvestad, Ingrid; Taneja, Sunita; Kumar, Tivendra; Bhandari, Nita; Strand, Tor A.; Hysing, Mari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-04-23)
      Objective and background: For large epidemiological studies in low and middle-income countries, inexpensive and easily administered developmental assessment tools are called for. This report evaluates the feasibility of ...

    • Association of Plasma Total Cysteine and Anthropometric Status in 6–30 Months Old Indian Children 

      Schwinger, Catherine; Chowdhury, Ranadip; Sharma, Shakun; Bhandari, Nita; Taneja, Sunita; Ueland, Per Magne; Strand, Tor A (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      High-quality protein has been associated with child growth; however, the role of the amino acid cysteine remains unclear. The aim was to measure the extent to which plasma total cysteine (tCys) concentration is associated ...

    • Breastfeeding and maternal health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

      Chowdhury, Ranadip; Sinha, Bireshwar; Sankar, Mari Jeeva; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita; Rollins, Nigel; Bahl, Rajiv; Martines, Jose Carlos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-04)
      Aim. To evaluate the effect of breastfeeding on long-term (breast carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes mellitus) and short-term (lactational amenorrhoea, postpartum depression, postpartum weight ...

    • Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings 

      Mertens, Andrew; Benjamin-Chung, Jade; Colford, John M.; Coyle, Jeremy; van der Laan, Mark J.; Hubbard, Alan E.; Rosete, Sonali; Malenica, Ivana; Hejazi, Nima; Sofrygin, Oleg; Cai, Wilson; Li, Haodong; Nguyen, Anna; Pokpongkiat, Nolan N.; Djajadi, Stephanie; Seth, Anmol; Jung, Esther; Chung, Esther O.; Jilek, Wendy; Subramoney, Vishak; Hafen, Ryan; Häggström, Jonas; Norman, Thea; Brown, Kenneth H.; Christian, Parul; Arnold, Benjamin F.; Abbeddou, Souheila; Adair, Linda S.; Ahmed, Tahmeed; Ali, Asad; Ali, Hasmot; Ashorn, Per; Bahl, Rajiv; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Becquey, Elodie; Begín, France; Bessong, Pascal Obong; Bhan, Maharaj Kishan; Bhandari, Nita; Bhargava, Santosh K.; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Black, Robert E.; Bodhidatta, Ladaporn; Carba, Delia; Checkley, William; Christian, Parul; Crabtree, Jean E.; Dewey, Kathryn G.; Duggan, Christopher P.; Fall, Caroline H. D.; Faruque, Abu Syed Golam; Fawzi, Wafaie W.; da Silva Filho, José Quirino; Gilman, Robert H.; Guerrant, Richard L.; Haque, Rashidul; Hasan, S. M. Tafsir; Hess, Sonja Y.; Houpt, Eric R.; Humphrey, Jean H.; Iqbal, Najeeha Talat; Jimenez, Elizabeth Yakes; John, Jacob; John, Sushil Matthew; Kang, Gagandeep; Kosek, Margaret; Kramer, Michael S.; Labrique, Alain; Lee, Nanette R.; Lima, Aldo Ângelo Moreira; Mahopo, Tjale Cloupas; Maleta, Kenneth; Manandhar, Dharma S.; Manji, Karim P.; Martorell, Reynaldo; Mazumder, Sarmila; Mduma, Estomih; Mohan, Venkata Raghava; Moore, Sophie E.; Ntozini, Robert; Nyathi, Mzwakhe Emanuel; Olortegui, Maribel Paredes; Ouédraogo, Césaire T.; Petri, William A.; Premkumar, Prasanna Samuel; Prentice, Andrew M.; Rahman, Najeeb; Ramirez-Zea, Manuel; Sachdev, Harshpal Singh; Sadiq, Kamran; Sarkar, Rajiv; Sarmin, Monira; Saville, Naomi M.; Shaikh, Saijuddin; Shrestha, Bhim P.; Shrestha, Sanjaya; Soares, Alberto Melo; Sonko, Bakary; Stein, Aryeh D.; Svensen, Erling; Syed, Sana; Umrani, Fayaz; Ward, Honorine D.; West, Keith P.; Wu, Lee Shu Fune; Yang, Seungmi; Yori, Pablo Penataro (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Growth faltering in children (low length for age or low weight for length) during the first 1,000 days of life (from conception to 2 years of age) influences short-term and long-term health and survival1,2. Interventions ...

    • Cognitive and motor outcomes in children born low birth weight: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from South Asia 

      Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Naik, Gitismita; Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Chowdhury, Ranadip; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita; Martines, Jose Carlos; Bahl, Rajiv; Bhan, Maharaj Kishan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-29)
      Background South Asia contributes substantially to global low birth weight population (i.e. those with birth weight < 2500 g). Synthesized evidence is lacking on magnitude of cognitive and motor deficits in low birth weight ...

    • Community initiated kangaroo mother care and early child development in low birth weight infants in India - a randomized controlled trial 

      Taneja, Sunita; Sinha, Bireshwar; Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Mazumder, Sarmila; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Martines, Jose Carlos; Dalpath, Suresh Kumar; Gupta, Rakesh; Kariger, Patricia; Bahl, Rajiv; Bhandari, Nita; Dua, Tarun; Abbasi, Farah; Panwar, Vaishali; Nagpal, Sugandhi; Shekhar, Medha; Ghosh, Runa; Kaur, Jasmine; Dube, Brinda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background: In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 8402 stable low birthweight (LBW) infants, majority being late preterm or term small for gestational age, community-initiated KMC (ciKMC) showed a significant improvement ...

    • Compliance of mothers following recommendations to breastfeed or withhold breast milk during rotavirus vaccination in North India: A randomized clinical trial 

      Rongsen-Chandola, Temsunaro; Winje, Brita Askeland; Goyal, Nidhi; Rathore, Sudeep Singh; Mahesh, Madhu; Ranjan, Rajat; Arya, Alok; Rafiqi, Farhana Afzal; Bhandari, Nita; Strand, Tor A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-28)
      Background: Neutralizing antibodies in breast milk may adversely influence the immune response to live oral vaccines. Withholding breastfeeding around the time of vaccine administration has been suggested for improving ...

    • Daily Folic Acid and/or Vitamin B12 Supplementation Between 6 and 30 Months of Age and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers After 6–7 Years: A Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial 

      Manapurath, Rukman; Strand, Tor Arne; Chowdhury, Ranadip; Kvestad, Ingrid; Yajnik, Chittaranjan S.; Bhandari, Nita; Taneja, Sunita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Deficiencies of vitamin B12 and folate are associated with elevated concentrations of metabolic markers related to CVDs. Objectives We investigated the effect of supplementation of vitamin B12 with or ...

    • Diagnostic measures for severe acute malnutrition in Indian infants under 6 months of age: a secondary data analysis 

      Chowdhury, Ranadip; Sanger, Nitika; Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Taneja, Sunita; Martines, Jose Carlos; Bhandari, Nita; Bahl, Rajiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Weight for length z-score (WLZ) < − 3 is currently used to define severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among infants. However, this approach has important limitations for infants younger than 6 months of age as WLZ ...

    • Diarrhea, Stimulation and Growth Predict Neurodevelopment in Young North Indian Children 

      Kvestad, Ingrid; Taneja, Sunita; Hysing, Mari; Kumar, Tivendra; Bhandari, Nita; Strand, Tor A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-31)
      Background and Objective. Infants and young children in low to middle-income countries are at risk for adverse neurodevelopment due to multiple risk factors. In this study, we sought to identify stimulation and learning ...

    • Early child stimulation, linear growth and neurodevelopment in low birth weight infants 

      Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Taneja, Sunita; Strand, Tor Arne; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Hysing, Mari; Mazumder, Sarmila; Bhandari, Nita; Martines, Jose Carlos; Dua, Tarun; Kariger, Patricia; Bahl, Rajiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Children with low birth weight (LBW) are at risk of linear growth faltering and developmental deficits. Evidence suggests that early child stimulation and care reflected as responsive caregiving and opportunities ...

    • Effect of community-initiated kangaroo mother care on breastfeeding performance in low birthweight infants: A randomized clinical trial 

      Sinha, Bireshwar; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Ashorn, Per; Mazumder, Sarmila; Taneja, Sunita; Bahl, Rajiv; Bhandari, Nita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This individually randomized trial was conducted to estimate the effect of promoting community-initiated kangaroo mother care (ciKMC) in low birthweight (LBW) infants on infant breastfeeding performance. It was designed ...

    • Effect of Community-Initiated Kangaroo Mother Care on Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Stress among Mothers of Low-Birth-Weight Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial 

      Sinha, Bireshwar; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Ashorn, Per; Mazumder, Sarmila; Taneja, Sunita; More, Deepak; Bahl, Rajiv; Bhandari, Nita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Importance Approximately 1 in 5 women in low- and middle-income countries experience postpartum depression, and the risk is higher among mothers of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants. Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is effective ...

    • Effect of implementation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness programme on treatment seeking practices for morbidities in infants: cluster randomised trial 

      Mazumder, Sarmila; Taneja, Sunita; Bahl, Rajiv; Mohan, Pavitra; Strand, Tor A.; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Kirkwood, Betty; Goyal, Nidhi; Van Den Hombergh, Henri; Martines, Jose Carlos; Bhandari, Nita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-29)
      Objective: To determine the effect of implementation of the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness strategy on treatment seeking practices and on neonatal and infant morbidity. Design: Cluster randomised ...

    • Effect of kangaroo mother care initiated in community settings on financial risk protection of low-income households: a randomised controlled trial in Haryana, India 

      Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Mazumder, Sarmila; Haaland, Øystein Ariansen; Taneja, Sunita; Bahl, Rajiv; Martines, Jose Carlos; Bahn, Maharaj Kishan; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Bhandari, Nita; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Introduction Many families in low-income and middle-income countries have high out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) for healthcare, and some face impoverishment. We aimed to assess the effect of Kangaroo Mother Care initiated ...

    • Effect of withholding breastfeeding on the immune response to a live oral rotavirus vaccine in North Indian infants 

      Rongsen-Chandola, Temsunaro; Strand, Tor A.; Goyal, Nidhi; Flem, Elmira; Singh Rathore, Sudeep; Arya, Alok; Winje, Brita Askeland; Lazarus, Robin; Shanmugasundaram, Elango; Babji, Sudhir; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Vainio, Kirsti; Kang, Gagandeep; Bhandari, Nita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-11)
      Interference from transplacental and breast milk antibodies may impede the performance of oral livevaccines. The effect of breastfeeding on the immunogenicity of Rotarix®, a two-dose oral monova-lent rotavirus vaccine, was ...

    • Enteral Calcium or Phosphorus Supplementation in Preterm or Low Birth Weight Infants: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

      Kumar, Mohan; Chowdhury, Ranadip; Sinha, Bireshwar; Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Chandola, Temsunaro Rongsen; Mazumder, Sarmila; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita; Choudhary, Tarun Shankar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      OBJECTIVES To assess effects of calcium or phosphorous supplementation compared with no supplementation in human milk-fed preterm or low birth weight infants. METHODS Data sources include Cochrane Central Register of ...

    • Enteral Iron Supplementation in Preterm or Low Birth Weight Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

      Manapurath, Rukman M.; Gadapani Pathak, Barsha; Sinha, Bireshwar; Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash; Choudhary, Tarun Shankar; Chandola, Temsunaro Rongsen; Mazumdar, Sarmila; Taneja, Sunita; Bhandari, Nita; Chowdhury, Ranadip (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Iron is needed for growth and development of infants globally, but preterm and low birth weight (LBW) infants are at risk for severe iron deficiencies. To assess the effect of enteral iron ...