Factors associated with nutritional outcomes in the mother-child dyad: a population-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate factors associated with double burden of nutritional outcomes in the mother-child dyad at the household level (child stunting and/or maternal overweight).

Design

Cross-sectional study using the Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey. Nutritional outcomes were: mother with normal weight and child with normal height; overweight mother and child with normal height; mother with normal weight and short-stature child; and overweight mother and child with short stature (double burden). The child was classified as short when height-for-age Z-score was <-2 and the mother as overweight when BMI was ≥25·00 kg/m2. Socio-economic status, environment, social vulnerability, maternal characteristics and the child's food intake were the exposure factors. The hierarchic

SUBMITTER: Gea-Horta T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10271133 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature