First Author, Year Intervention, Participants | Nutritional outcomes | Health outcomes | |||
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Gunnell 2000[39] | Â | Growth outcomes* | |||
Intervention included either daily school feeding (SF) or family food packages weekly (FP) and two control groups with no food subsidy- families and school students | Â | Mean, (SD) | I | C | p |
 |  | Height increase, cm | 6.10(1.50) | 5.56(1.45) | <0.0001 |
 |  | Leg length increase, cm | 4.98 (2.07) | 4.87(2.25) | 0.0006 |
 |  | Trunk increase, cm | 1.12 (2.17) | 0.69 (2.23) | 0.17 |
 |  | Stature increases by method of feeding,†| |||
Children aged 2–14 years |  | Mean (95%CI) | SF | FP | |
 |  | Change in height (I-C), mm | 6.7 (2.7-10.6) | 2.0 (−0.7-4.8) | |
 |  | Change in leg length (I-C),mm | 7.2 (1.9-12.4) | 2.3 (−1.5-6.2) | |
 |  | Mortality | |||
 |  | Hazard ratio I vs C (95%CI) | p | ||
 |  | All causes | 1.15 (0.7,1.7) | 0.46 | |
 |  | CHD | 1.62 (0.8,3.5) | 0.21 | |
 |  | Cancer | 0.69 (0.4,1.4) | 0.30 | |
 |  | Non-smoking | |||
 |  | related cancer | 0.59 (0.2,2.0) | 0.59 |