Effect of vitamin D3-fortified fruit juice supplementation of 4000 IU daily on the recovery of iron status in childbearing-aged women with marginally low iron stores: Protocol for an 8-week, parallel group, double-blind randomized controlled trial

Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi; Loh Su Peng; Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar; Norhafizah Ab. Manan; Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265772

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Effect of vitamin D3-fortified fruit juice supplementation of 4000 IU daily on the recovery of iron status in childbearing-aged women with marginally low iron stores: Protocol for an 8-week, parallel group, double-blind randomized controlled trial

Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: salmafaeza@upm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-1538

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Loh Su Peng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Norhafizah Ab. Manan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
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Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Medical School, Management and Science University (MSU), Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
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Effect of vitamin D3-fortified fruit juice supplementation of 4000 IU daily on the recovery of iron status in childbearing-aged women with marginally low iron stores: Protocol for an 8-week, parallel group, double-blind randomized controlled trial

Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi,
Loh Su Peng,
Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar,
Norhafizah Ab. Manan,
Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Published: March 25, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265772

About the Authors

Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: salmafaeza@upm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-1538

Loh Su Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Norhafizah Ab. Manan

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Contributed equally to this work with: Salma Faeza Ahmad Fuzi, Loh Su Peng, Nurzalinda Zabaha Zalbahar, Norhafizah Ab. Manan, Muhammad Najib Mohamad Alwi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Medical School, Management and Science University (MSU), Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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