Iron Status and Systemic Inflammation, but Not Gut Inflammation, Strongly Predict Gender-Specific Concentrations of Serum Hepcidin in Infants in Rural Kenya

• Tanja Jaeggi ,

  * E-mail: Tanja.jaeggi@hest.ethz.ch

  Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Diego Moretti,

  Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Jane Kvalsvig,

  Affiliation University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Penny A. Holding,

  Affiliation International Centre for Behavioural Studies, Mombasa, Kenya

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• Harold Tjalsma,

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Hepcidinanalysis.com, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Guus A. M. Kortman,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Irma Joosten,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Alice Mwangi,

  Affiliation Department of Food, Technology and Nutrition, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Michael B. Zimmermann

  Affiliation Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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