Background Wasting and stunting are common. They are implicated in the deaths of almost
two million children each year and account for over 12% of disability-adjusted life years lost …

Background The etiologic relationship between wasting and stunting is poorly understood,
largely because of a lack of high-quality longitudinal data from children at risk of …

Background: Child stunting, wasting, and underweight have been individually associated
with increased mortality. However, there has not been an analysis of the mortality risk …

Objective. The main aim of the study was to assess the magnitude of concurrent wasting and
stunting among Ghanaian preschool children. Secondly, we investigated the relationship …

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 …

The term “stunting” has become pervasive in international nutrition and child health
research, program, and policy circles. Although originally intended as a population-level …

Wasting and stunting are often presented as two separate forms of malnutrition requiring
different interventions for prevention and/or treatment. These two forms of malnutrition …

ObjectivePrevalence ranges to classify levels of wasting and stunting have been used since
the 1990s for global monitoring of malnutrition. Recent developments prompted a re …

ObjectiveTo quantify the prevalence and trends of stunting among children using the WHO
growth standards. DesignFive hundred and seventy-six nationally representative surveys …

We investigated the causes of stunting and wasting using nationally representative data on
preschool children from India (2005–2006, N= 41,306) and Guatemala (2008–2009, N …