Early childhood linear growth faltering in low-income and middle-income countries as a whole-population condition: analysis of 179 Demographic and Health Surveys …

DE Roth, A Krishna, M Leung, J Shi… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The causes of early childhood linear growth faltering (known as stunting) in low-
income and middle-income countries remain inadequately understood. We aimed to …

Growth faltering in rural Gambian children after four decades of interventions: a retrospective cohort study

HM Nabwera, AJ Fulford, SE Moore… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Growth faltering remains common in children in sub-Saharan Africa and is
associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Due to a very slow decline in the …

Path analyses of risk factors for linear growth faltering in four prospective cohorts of young children in Ghana, Malawi and Burkina Faso

EL Prado, EY Jimenez, S Vosti, R Stewart… - BMJ global …, 2019 - gh.bmj.com
Stunting prevalence is an indicator of a country's progress towards United Nations'
Sustainable Development Goal 2, which is to end hunger and achieve improved nutrition …

Risk of poor development in young children in low-income and middle-income countries: an estimation and analysis at the global, regional, and country level

C Lu, MM Black, LM Richter - The Lancet Global Health, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background A 2007 study published in The Lancet estimated that approximately 219 million
children aged younger than 5 years were exposed to stunting or extreme poverty in 2004 …

Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low-and middle-income countries

J Benjamin-Chung, A Mertens, JM Colford Jr… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Globally, 149 million children under 5 years of age are estimated to be stunted (length more
than 2 standard deviations below international growth standards),. Stunting, a form of linear …

Growth faltering and recovery in children aged 1–8 years in four low-and middle-income countries: Young Lives

EA Lundeen, JR Behrman, BT Crookston… - Public health …, 2014 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveWe characterized post-infancy child growth patterns and determined the incidence
of becoming stunted and of recovery from stunting. DesignData came from Young Lives, a …

Maternal height-standardized prevalence of stunting in 67 low-and middle-income countries

O Karlsson, R Kim, B Bogin, S SV - Journal of Epidemiology, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Background: Prevalence of stunting is frequently used as a marker of population-level child
undernutrition. Parental height varies widely in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) and …

Worldwide timing of growth faltering: revisiting implications for interventions

CG Victora, M De Onis, PC Hallal, M Blössner… - …, 2010 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to describe worldwide growth-faltering patterns by using the new
World Health Organization (WHO) standards. METHODS: We analyzed information …

How consistent are associations between stunting and child development? Evidence from a meta-analysis of associations between stunting and multidimensional …

AC Miller, MB Murray, DR Thomson… - Public health …, 2016 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveDespite documented associations between stunting and cognitive development,
few population-level studies have measured both indicators in individual children or …

Trends in mild, moderate, and severe stunting and underweight, and progress towards MDG 1 in 141 developing countries: a systematic analysis of population …

GA Stevens, MM Finucane, CJ Paciorek, SR Flaxman… - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background There is little information on country trends in the complete distributions of
children's anthropometric status, which are needed to assess all levels of mild to severe …