PRIYA Trial on Vitamin B12
Recently, the findings of the Pune Rural Intervention in Young Adolescents (PRIYA) trial, published recently, in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, indicate that vitamin B12 supplementation during adolescence improves neonatal health through epigenetic mechanisms.
- Conducted between 2012 and 2020 within the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study (PMNS), the PRIYA trial assessed whether enhancing vitamin B12 status in adolescents could lower intergenerational metabolic risks in a population with widespread deficiency.
- The study found that adolescent vitamin B12 supplementation significantly improved neonatal ponderal index (weight relative to height), reflecting better foetal growth and early-life nutritional outcomes.
- These ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 WASH Warriors
- 2 CSIR Integrated Skill Initiative
- 3 GeM Marks Seven Years of Womaniya Initiative
- 4 Jamma Bane Lands
- 5 Model Youth Gram Sabha (MYGS)
- 6 Lambadi Community
- 7 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
- 8 Continuation of Atal Pension Yojana
- 9 Satta-Watta Marriage System
- 10 Demographic Winter and Its Socio-Economic Impact
- 1 Gender Budgeting: Unlocking Women’s Empowerment and Economic Equality in India
- 2 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
- 3 Economic Viability of Shorter All-Oral TB Treatment in India
- 4 India Highlights Rights-Based, People-Centric Development at UN Forum
- 5 Centre Targets Six Crore 'Lakhpati Didis' by 2029-30
- 6 PAC Highlights Implementation Gaps in SANKALP Scheme
- 7 Navigating the Issue of Illegal Rat-Hole Mining
- 8 India Registers Landmark Progress in Organ Donation & Transplantation
- 9 Goa Promotes SHe-Box Portal Under POSH Act, 2013
- 10 Rashtriya Karmayogi Large Scale Jan Seva Program
- 11 PM-SURAJ Portal
- 12 PM-POSHAN
- 13 Kaushal Rath: Promoting AI literacy under ‘Yuva AI for All’ Initiative
- 14 Khula
- 15 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)
- 16 National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST)
- 17 Sangtam Tribe
- 18 Tender Years Doctrine
