The authors apologise for an error in Table 3 The geometric mean for Serum ferritin (ng/ml) was incorrectly given as 40.0 when the correct value is 36.0. All other values remain the same. The corrected Table is given below.
CG, static cross-sectional control group; IC, intervention group; SD, standard deviation.
* P-value for between group comparison (ANCOVA model correcting for sex, exclusively breastfeeding until 6 months of age (Y/N), Kuppuswamy socioeconomic status(1), birth weight, gestational age, and study site).