Infections and nutrient deficiencies during infancy predict impaired growth at 5 years: Findings from the MAL-ED study in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Socio-economic, nutritional, and infectious factors have been associated with impaired infant growth, but how the presence of these factors during infancy affects growth around 5 years is not well understood.

Methods

This secondary analysis of the MAL-ED cohort included 277 children from Pakistan for whom socio-demographic, breastfeeding, complementary foods, illness, nutritional biomarkers, stool pathogens and environmental enteropathy indicators between 0 and 11 months were recorded. We used linear regression models to analyze associations of these indicators with height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-age (WAZ) and weight-for-height (WLZ) at 54-66 months (~5 years), and Poisson regression with robust standard errors to estimate risk ratios for stunting and underweigh

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Fernandez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9982131 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature