Children who were wasted before the age of 6 months had a faster recovery and shorter episodes than did children who were wasted at older ages; however, early wasting increased the risk of later growth faltering, including concurrent wasting and stunting (low length-for-age z-score), and ...
CONCLUSION :Despite descending trends of child stunting and wasting and a secular trend of child obesity in EM region, it is expected that WHO targets will not be achieved by 2025. A diverse socio-economic condition in EM countries necessitates different action plans. International determination, ...
We assessed the prevalence of wasting, stunting, and undernutrition among children aged 6-60 months of female Liberian refugees (n=239) and Ghanaians living in Buduburam Refugee Settlement (n=121) and an adjacent Ghanaian village (n=120). Liberian refugees live in all 12 camp zones while Gha...
Wasting and stunting are highly correlated with underweight (r2 = 0.72 and r2 = 0.70 respectively). Women’s education had a moderate negative correlation with stunting (r2=- 0.54), underweight (r2 = − 0.53), toilet facility (r2 = 0.58), clean cooking fuel (r2 =...
While about 2% of healthy individuals are this small and smaller, the −2 z-score measurement is often employed as a ‘cutoff’ value in screening studies to identify infants at risk of underweight, stunting or wasting (the result, e.g., of severe malnutrition). In summary, growth ...
Malnutrition, specifically including fetal growth restriction, child stunting and wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc, along with suboptimal breastfeeding, causes 3.1 million child deaths or almost 50% of all deaths under age 5 years annually [5]. The prevalence of malnutrition is signi...
On the other hand, child stunting remains affected years after negative shocks from ENSO (Supplementary Table 8), consistent with height being slower to respond to health shocks than weight20 and with the first 2 years of life being the riskiest period for growth faltering due to scarring25,...
The prevalence of wasting among children under five years also fell fairly quickly. Maternal weight gain also improved over time, but this mostly occurred in the last five years. Table 2. Trends in maternal and child nutritional status indicators in Nepal, 1996–2011. LAZ (Stunting), children ...
A second limitation of the work is that while we have focussed on indicators of child well-being such as stunting, wasting and malnourishment, it would be instructive to see how women’s access to property inheritance affects the psychological well-being of their offsprings. This question can ...
The CIAF and its disaggregation into subcategories of undernourished 5 years old children reveal a grimmer story of child undernutrition than conventional anthropometric indicators do. Besides, simultaneous occurrence of anthropometric failures (e.g. stunting and underweight, and stunting, wasting and ...