Ghosh, Santu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-9570
Palika, Ravindranadh
Dasi, Teena
Varshney, Rajeev K.
Parasannanavar, Devraj J.
Sen Gupta, Sourav
Chitikineni, Annapurna
Banjara, Santosh Kumar
Pullakhandam, Raghu
Thomas, Tinku http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-6076
Sachdev, Harshpal S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4956-9391
Kurpad, Anura V. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7998-2438
Kulkarni, Bharati http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0636-318X
Article History
Received: 11 December 2022
Revised: 3 July 2023
Accepted: 10 July 2023
First Online: 3 August 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: No separate ethical approval was required for this secondary analysis. The original study was nested within a trial (CTRI No: 2019/02/017806, ExternalRef removed) to evaluate the effect of IFA supplementation on the gut microbiome and Hb. The original study was approved by the ethics committee of ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (IEC: 06/II/2018). Prior informed consent from the participants and approval of the college authorities was taken for the study participation.