Postinfancy growth, schooling, and cognitive achievement: Young Lives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early life growth failure and resulting cognitive deficits are often assumed to be very difficult to reverse after infancy.

Objective

We used data from Young Lives, which is an observational cohort of 8062 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, to determine whether changes in growth after infancy are associated with schooling and cognitive achievement at age 8 y.

Design

We represented the growth by height-for-age z score at 1 y [HAZ(1)] and height-for-age z score at 8 y that was not predicted by the HAZ(1). We also characterized growth as recovered (stunted at age 1 y and not at age 8 y), faltered (not stunted at age 1 y and stunted at age 8 y), persistently stunted (stunted at ages 1 and 8 y), or never stunted (not stunted at ages 1 and 8 y). Outc

SUBMITTER: Crookston BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3831540 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature