Mapping child growth failure across low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally¹. Undernourished children are more likely to experience cognitive, physical, and metabolic developmental impairments that can lead to later cardiovascular disease, reduced intellectual ability and school attainment, and reduced economic productivity in adulthood². Child growth failure (CGF), expressed as stunting, wasting, and underweight in children under five years of age (0-59 months), is a specific subset of undernutrition characterized by insufficient height or weight against age-specific growth reference standards^3-5. The prevalence of stunting, wasting, or underweight in children under five is the proportion of children with a height-for-age, weight-for-height, or weight-

SUBMITTER: Local Burden of Disease Child Growth Failure Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7015855 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature