The prevalence of malnutrition and growth percentiles for urban South African children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are experiencing a double-burden of malnutrition characterised by high prevalence of both under- and over-nutrition. We set out using data from the mixed-longitudinal Birth-to-Twenty Plus (Bt20+) birth cohort, to evaluate the patterns of malnutrition and growth in a large South African (SA) city by; (i) assessing the prevalence of undernutrition from birth to 5 years of age and overweight and obesity from ages 2 to 21 years in black and white, male and female children, and (ii) determining percentiles for height, weight, BMI, waist and hip circumferences and comparing the centiles to American and Dutch references.

Methods

Height, weight, waist and hip circumferences were measured on urban black and white SA children from the

SUBMITTER: Nyati LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498578 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature