Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition

S Thurstans, C Opondo, A Seal, J Wells, T Khara… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Background Excess male morbidity and mortality is well recognised in neonatal medicine
and infant health. In contrast, within global nutrition, it is commonly assumed that girls are …

The relationship between wasting and stunting in young children: A systematic review

S Thurstans, N Sessions, C Dolan… - Maternal & Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In 2014, the Emergency Nutrition Network published a report on the relationship
between wasting and stunting. We aim to review evidence generated since that review to …

[HTML][HTML] Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: an updated analysis with a focus on low-and middle …

A Prüss-Ustün, J Wolf, J Bartram, T Clasen… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background To develop updated estimates in response to new exposure and exposure-
response data of the burden of diarrhoea, respiratory infections, malnutrition …

Socioeconomic inequalities in hidden hunger, undernutrition, and overweight among under-five children in 35 sub-Saharan Africa countries

M Ekholuenetale, G Tudeme, A Onikan… - Journal of the Egyptian …, 2020 - Springer
Background Many underlying factors are assumed to contribute to the disparities in
magnitude of childhood malnutrition. Notwithstanding, socioeconomic inequalities remain …

Understanding sex differences in childhood undernutrition: a narrative review

S Thurstans, C Opondo, A Seal, JC Wells, T Khara… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Complementing a recent systematic review and meta-analysis which showed that boys are
more likely to be wasted, stunted, and underweight than girls, we conducted a narrative …

Concurrent wasting and stunting among under‐five children in Niakhar, Senegal

M Garenne, M Myatt, T Khara, C Dolan… - Maternal & child …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The study describes the patterns of concurrent wasting and stunting (WaSt) among children
age 6–59 months living in the 1980s in Niakhar, a rural area of Senegal under demographic …

Beyond wasted and stunted—a major shift to fight child undernutrition

JCK Wells, A Briend, EM Boyd, JA Berkely… - The Lancet Child & …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Child undernutrition refers broadly to the condition in which food intake is inadequate to
meet a child's needs for physiological function, growth, and the capacity to respond to …

Prevalence, trends, and socioeconomic determinants of coexisting forms of malnutrition amongst children under five years of age in Pakistan

A Khaliq, D Wraith, Y Miller, S Nambiar-Mann - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
In Pakistan, malnutrition is a chronic issue. Concerns regarding coexisting forms of
malnutrition (CFM) in an individual child are emerging, as children suffering from CFM have …

[HTML][HTML] How can nutrition research better reflect the relationship between wasting and stunting in children? Learnings from the Wasting and Stunting project

K Sadler, PT James, ZA Bhutta, A Briend, S Isanaka… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Childhood wasting and stunting affect large numbers of children globally. Both are important
risk factors for illness and death yet, despite the fact that these conditions can share common …

Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low-and middle-income countries

A Mertens, J Benjamin-Chung, JM Colford Jr… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 2.2—to end malnutrition by 2030—includes the
elimination of child wasting, defined as a weight-for-length z-score that is more than two …