I am an ESL student. I am doing a research on a new disease. Following is the introduction of our research. It is really important, I will use it to apply for approval and funding.
Because I am an ESL so mistakes are unavoidable. Could you please help me by checking and correcting my grammar, changing some words/sentences and make it more native and smooth ?
"Micronutrient deficiencies can lead to many severe diseases such as anemia, pellagra, osteomalacia or impaired cognitive development. There are more than 2 billion people worldwide affected by micronutrient malnutrition. In Vietnam, regardless of economic growth improvements in recent years, micronutrient deficiencies still remain the major public health problem. Especially, the issue is even more detrimental in ethnic minorities due to their poverty, backward eating habit and insufficient nutritional knowledge.
From April 2011, an idiopathic disease called inflammatory palmoplantar hyperkeratosis (IPPH) syndrome has caused 20 deaths among 300 hospitalized patients in Ba To, a rural district of Quang Ngai province in central Vietnam. Ba To is a remote mountainous district highly populated by ethnic minorities whose main occupations are farming. Most of households had been continuously consuming moldy rice stored in poor conditions from previous harvests. Of the cases known to have died, 62.8% of patients were admitted with malnutrition and wasting syndrome. We hypothesized that micronutrient deficiencies are the risk factors of high incidence of IPPH syndrome in ethnic minorities. Therefore, we aim to study the micronutrient status and the adequacy of micronutrient intake in ethnic minorities. This study also investigates the association of socioeconomic status, lifestyle factors and living environment of ethnic minorities with their micronutrient malnutrition. Subsequently, a research-based community intervention will be conducted to prevent and control outbreak of IPPH syndrome in Ba To district."