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The results of this study will serve to plan an intervention study in these communities in the same age group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980002000411_sec02\"><jats:title>Design:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Cross-sectional study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980002000411_sec03\"><jats:title>Setting:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Two disadvantaged urban black and \u2018coloured\u2019 communities in the Western Cape, South Africa.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980002000411_sec04\"><jats:title>Subjects:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Sixty infants aged 6\u201312 months from each community.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980002000411_sec05\"><jats:title>Outcome measures:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Dietary intake, anthropometric measurements, micronutrient status and psychomotor development.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980002000411_sec06\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Stunting and underweight were more prevalent in coloured infants (18% and 7%, respectively) than in black infants (8% and 2%, respectively). Anaemia (haemoglobin (Hb)&lt;11 g dl<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>) was prevalent in 64% of coloured and 83% of black infants. Iron-deficiency anaemia ( Hb&lt;11 g dl<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>and ferritin &lt; 10 ng ml<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>) was found in 32% of coloured infants and in 46% of black infants. Zinc deficiency was prevalent in 35% and 33% of the coloured and black infants, respectively. Marginal vitamin A deficiency (serum retinol &lt; 20 \u03bcg dl<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>) was observed in 23% of black infants compared with 2% of coloured infants. Of black infants, 43% and of coloured infants 6% were deficient in two or more micronutrients. Six per cent of coloured infants had C-reactive protein concentrations above 5 mg l<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>compared with 38% of the black infants. The dietary intake of micronutrients was in general lower in black infants than in coloured infants. The overall psychomotor development, assessed by the Denver Developmental Screening Test, was different between the two groups. The coloured infants scored higher in three out of the four categories as well as in their overall score.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980002000411_sec07\"><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study shows that information on stunting and wasting only in urban disadvantaged infants is not sufficient to make recommendations about specific community intervention programmes. Information on the micronutrient status, independent of wasting and stunting, is necessary to design nutrition programmes for different communities. 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