Multiple burdens of malnutrition and relative remoteness in rural Ecuadorian communities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Social and economic changes associated with new roads can bring about rapid nutritional transitions. To study this process, we: (1) describe trends in adult overweight and obesity (OW/OB) among rural Afro-Ecuadorians over time and across a gradient of community remoteness from the nearest commercial centre; (2) examine the relationship between male and female adult OW/OB and factors associated with market integration such as changing livelihoods and (3) examine the co-occurrence of adult OW/OB and under-five stunting and anaemia.

Design

Adult anthropometry was collected through serial case-control studies repeated over a decade across twenty-eight communities. At the same time, anthropometry and Hb were measured for all children under 5 years of age in every commun

SUBMITTER: Lee GO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195250 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature