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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 68, 425S-429S, Copyright © 1998 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
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KH Brown
Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis 95616, USA. khbrown@ucdavis.edu
The development of intervention programs to control zinc deficiency is hampered by the lack of sensitive, specific, low-cost indicators of zinc status. The mean plasma zinc concentration of groups of individuals has been suggested as a possible indicator of a population's zinc status because the plasma zinc concentration seems to predict whether growth will increase in response to zinc supplementation. However, experimental studies in both animal models and adult human volunteers as well as clinical studies of infected and noninfected adults indicate that systemic infections that produce an acute phase response also cause the plasma zinc concentration to fall. Therefore, concerns have been raised about the usefulness of plasma zinc concentration as an indicator of zinc status in populations with high prevalences of infections. By contrast with the aforementioned studies in adults, cross-sectional, community-based surveys of children with and without common infections have not found any association between the presence of infection and plasma zinc concentration, possibly because the severity of those infections observed in children in field settings was less than that of the infections studied in adults. Thus, it appears that the mean plasma zinc concentration may be a useful indicator of population zinc status for children in low-income countries despite the high prevalence of common childhood infections encountered in these settings.
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