Growth faltering in children (low length for age or low weight for length) during the first 1,000
days of life (from conception to 2 years of age) influences short-term and long-term health …

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 …

Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally.
Undernourished children are more likely to experience cognitive, physical, and metabolic …

Insufficient growth during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes and an
increased risk of death. Between 2000 and 2015, nearly all African countries demonstrated …

Objective. It is widely assumed that growth faltering starts at around 3 months of age, but
there has been no systematic assessment of its timing using representative national …

Child growth failure is associated with a higher risk of illness and mortality, which
contributed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2.2 to end malnutrition by …

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 …

1.1 Background Early-life growth faltering is of considerable concern for many low-and
middleincome countries (LIMICs). Average growth paths for children in undernourished …

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 …

Background Growth faltering largely occurs in the first 23 months after birth and is thought to
be largely determined by various harmful or protective socioeconomic conditions. Children …