Effects of iron supplementation on neural indices of habituation in Bangladeshi children
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Publication Year 2023-01,Volume 117,Issue #1,Page 73-82
Journal Title
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Publication Type
Research article
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency and anemia have been associated with poor cognition in children, yet the effects of iron supplementation on neurocognition remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to examine the effects of supplementation with iron on neural indices of habituation using auditory event-related brain potentials (ERPs). METHODS: This substudy was nested within a 3-arm, double-blind, double-dummy, individual randomized trial in Bangladesh, in which 3300 8-mo-old children were randomly selected to receive 3 mo of daily iron syrup (12.5 mg iron), multiple micronutrient powders (MNPs) (including 12.5 mg iron), or placebo. Children were assessed after 3 mo of intervention (mo 3) and 9 mo thereafter (mo 12). The neurocognitive substudy comprised a randomly selected subset of children from the main trial. Brain activity elicited during an auditory roving oddball task was recorded using electroencephalography to provide an index of habituation. The differential response to a novel (deviant) compared with a repeated (standard) sound was examined. The primary outcome was the amplitude of the mismatch response (deviant minusstandard tone waveforms) at mo 3. Secondary outcomes included the deviant and standard tone-evoked amplitudes, N2 amplitude differences, and differences in mean amplitudes evoked by deviant tones presented in the second compared with first half of the oddball sequence at mo 3 and 12. RESULTS: Data were analyzed from 329 children at month 3 and 363 at mo 12. Analyses indicated no treatment effects of iron interventions compared with placebo on the amplitude of the mismatch response (iron syrup compared with placebo: mean difference (MD) = 0.07muV [95% CI: -1.22, 1.37]; MNPs compared with placebo: MD = 0.58muV [95% CI: -0.74, 1.90]) nor any secondary ERP outcomes at mo 3 or 12, despite improvements in hemoglobin and ferritin concentrations from iron syrup and MNPs in this nested substudy. CONCLUSION: In Bangladeshi children with >40% anemia prevalence, iron or MNP interventions alone are insufficient to improve neural indices of habituation. This trial was registered at the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry as ACTRN12617000660381.
Publisher
Elsevier
Keywords
Humans; Child; Iron/pharmacology; *Anemia, Iron-Deficiency/epidemiology; Dietary Supplements; Micronutrients; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Australia; *Anemia/epidemiology; anemia; brain function; children; event-related brain potentials; iron; multiple micronutrients; neurocognition
Department(s)
Clinical Haematology
PubMed ID
36789946
Open Access at Publisher's Site
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.11.023
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