Pullakhandam, Raghu
Ghosh, Santu
Kulkarni, Bharati http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0636-318X
Reddy, G. Bhanuprakash http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4787-3944
Rajkumar, Hemalatha
Kapil, Umesh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-0437
Deb, Sila
Kurpad, Anura V. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7998-2438
Sachdev, Harshpal S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4956-9391
Article History
Received: 29 October 2021
Revised: 18 January 2022
Accepted: 21 January 2022
First Online: 9 February 2022
Change Date: 6 April 2022
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-022-01137-y
Competing interests
: HSS designed the draft protocol of the CNNS with consultancy support from UNICEF, India. HSS, UK, and AVK were members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the CNNS, constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India, to oversee its conduct and analysis. HSS is a member of the WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Subgroup on Diet and Health and Guideline Development Group on the use and interpretation of haemoglobin concentrations for assessing anaemia status in individuals and populations, member of the World Health Organization Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Subgroup on Diet and Health and Expert group on nutrient requirements: setting calcium, vitamin D and Zn nutrient intake values for children aged 0-4 years. He is also member of Expert Groups of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Nutrition and Child Health. SD was involved in the CNNS study implementation. There were no other conflicts to declare. The views expressed here by the authors are in their individual capacity and should not be construed as views or recommendations of the institutions the authors belong to.
: The CNNS was conducted after obtaining due International Ethical approval from the Population Council’s International Review Board, New York, USA and National Ethical approval from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India (Ref. 14).