Karantha, Sowmya C.
Manapurath, Rukman
Chowdhury, Ranadip
Bhatia, Kiran
Taneja, Sunita
Dang, Navin
Dang, Arjun
Chatterjee, Leena
Sharma, Sitanshi
Chellani, Harish K.
Bhandari, Nita
Article History
Received: 17 December 2024
Revised: 18 May 2025
Accepted: 4 October 2025
First Online: 20 November 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: As a written individual informed consent was obtained from participants in the main study, and anemia and micronutrient status at 24 months was a secondary outcome hence no separate consent was required for this paper.