Background Progress has been made worldwide in reducing chronic undernutrition and
rates of linear growth stunting in children under 5 y of age, although rates still remain high in …

Dietary patterns analysis is an emerging area of research. Identifying distinct patterns within
a large dietary survey can give a more accurate representation of what people are eating …

Abstract Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are comparable nationally representative
household surveys that have been conducted in more than 85 countries worldwide since …

Background Most attempts to address undernutrition, responsible for one third of global child
deaths, have fallen behind expectations. This suggests that the assumptions underlying …

Background Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing
childhood undernutrition in India. We assessed the association between changes in state …

Objective We sought to examine changes in regional and sex disparities in stunting,
thinness, and overweight among Chinese school-aged children from 1985 to 2014. Methods …

The present study examines the secular trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity
among urban Asian Indian adolescents in New Delhi (North India). The data were derived …

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Background Although decreasing in trend, one-in-three children remain stunted in Nepal
and its distribution is unequal among different socioeconomic and geographical subgroups …

In this paper, we study the impact of air pollution on child growth in India. We rely on wind
direction to capture quasi-random variation in three main criteria air pollutants. We show that …