Associations of single versus multiple anthropometric failure with mortality in children under 5 years: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Stunting, underweight, and wasting are used to monitor nutritional status in children, but they do not identify children with concurrent anthropometric failures (AF). Our study estimates the association between AF and mortality in children with single versus multiple failures, then calculates the percentage of child deaths attributable to AF.

Subjects/methods

Using data from a prospective, longitudinal study of 3605 children from age 1 to age 5 years in Ethiopia and India, we estimate the association between AF and mortality using conventional definitions (stunting, underweight, and wasting) and the mutually exclusive categories of stunted only underweight only, wasted only, stunted and underweight (SU), underweight and wasted, and stunted, underweight,

SUBMITTER: Gausman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8626676 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature