ChildrenSomaliaRisk factorsMalnutritionStunting and wasting in children less than 5years of age are two key indicators of child malnutrition. Reducing their prevalence is a priority of the global public health community and for Somalia, a country suffering complex humanitarian emergencies such as drought...
According to the SDGs, by 2025, the internationally agreed reduction targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age should be achieved. A United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report released in 2019 said South African children under five years of age face the triple bur...
Maternal age, education, and employment were related to stunting among children with single mothers. Mothers without prenatal classes were 1.294 times more likely than those with prenatal classes to have stunted children (95% CI 1.241–1.349). Children in all wealth groups were likelier to become...
Wasting in very young children increases their risk of mortality (relative risk: 2.3), and this risk increases further if they are also stunted and underweight (defined as a length-for-age z-score (LAZ) below –2 and a weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) below –2, respectively; relative ...
Stunting is one of the most widespread forms of undernutrition found in Brazilian children. Some studies have revealed an association between this condition and overweight, whereas others report an association with wasting. The objective of this work was to test the hypothesis that stunted children wh...
aI am young and lively, beautiful. High quality, good temperament 我是年轻和活泼的,美丽。 高质量,好气质[translate] a2.2 by 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address...
Objective:This study aimed to identify determinant factors of stunting and wasting in street children ages 5 to 18 y in Northwest Ethiopia. Materials and methods:A community-based cross-sectional study design was employed. An interviewer-administered, structured, and pretested questionnaire was used ...
Additionally, children ages 12 to 24 mo had the highest prevalence of WaSt [17]. In general, wasting and stunting have common risk factors and consequences [18]. Both are closely related; wasted children are highly likely to become stunted or vice versa [19]. A child with WaSt not only ...
Children born with low birth weight are highly vulnerable to develop diseases and death and/or remain undernourished (i.e., stunted and wasted). This study determines the LBW newborns are more prone to develop stunting and wasting in province of Sindh, Pakistan. Moreover, regression-based ...
The longitudinal relationship between stunting and wasting in children is poorly characterized. Instances of wasting or poor weight gain may precede linear growth retardation. We analyzed longitudinal anthropometric data for 1599 children from 8 cohort studies to determine the effect of wasting [weight-fo...