Age heterogeneities in child growth and its associated socio-demographic factors: a cross-sectional study in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impacts of socio-demographic and environmental risk factors on child growth have been widely documented. However, it remains unclear whether the impacts of such risk factors on child growth have remained static or changed with child's age. The present study aims to assess the underlying age heterogeneities in child growth and its potential determinants over age in under-five children.

Methods

Cross-sectional data on child height (measured as height-for-age z-score, i.e., HAZ) and weight (measured as weight-for-age z-score, i.e., WAZ) and potential confounding factors from India's 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) were used to construct anthropometric age-profiles by a number of bio-demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Further, age-interact

SUBMITTER: Yadav S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9248138 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature