Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low-and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018

D Kinyoki, AE Osgood-Zimmerman… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Anemia is a globally widespread condition in women and is associated with reduced
economic productivity and increased mortality worldwide. Here we map annual 2000–2018 …

Cardiovascular dynamics in HIV: the influence of adrenal function and nutritional status

AJ Niwaha, JB Byrd - Circulation Research, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
This interdisciplinary review explores the intricate nexus between HIV infection, nutrition,
adrenal gland function, and cardiovascular health, highlighting a critical aspect of HIV …

Advancing precision public health for obesity in children

JL Baker, LG Bjerregaard - Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, 2023 - Springer
Worldwide, far too many children and adolescents are living with the disease of obesity.
Despite decades of public health initiatives, rates are still rising in many countries. This …

Prevalence and determinants of wasting of under-5 children in Bangladesh: Quantile regression approach

MM Hossain, F Abdulla, A Rahman - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Wasting is perhaps one of the signs of malnutrition that has been linked to the
deaths of children suffering from malnutrition. As a result, understanding its correlations and …

Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low-and middle-income countries, 2000–2018

NV Bhattacharjee, LE Schaeffer, SI Hay - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)—giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life—
is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and …

Household behavior and vulnerability to acute malnutrition in Kenya

R Bhavnani, N Schlager, K Donnay, M Reul… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
Anticipating those most at-risk of being acutely malnourished significantly shapes decisions
that pertain to resource allocation and intervention in times of food crises. Yet, the …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding linkages between environmental risk factors and noncommunicable diseases—A review

M Dhimal, T Neupane, ML Dhimal - FASEB BioAdvances, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Environmental factors such as climate change are now underway, which have substantial
impacts on health and well‐being of human kind, but still imprecisely quantified, implications …

Early-life weight gain patterns of term small-for-gestational-age infants and the predictive ability for later childhood overweight/obesity: A prospective cohort study

P Li, Y Lu, D Qie, L Feng, G He, S Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives We aimed to identify the weight gain patterns of small-for-gestational age (SGA)
infants in early life and to explore the predictive value for later overweight/obesity in …

Exploring the influence of food labels and advertisements on eating habits of children: a cross-sectional study from Punjab, India

M Verma, R Aggarwal, B Nath, R Kakkar - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Maintaining healthy eating habits among children is challenging due to
industrial tactics. There is little research on the effect of nutritional labels and tv ads on the …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary feeding practices among young children in China, India, and Indonesia: A narrative review

O Sirkka, M Abrahamse-Berkeveld… - Current developments in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Under-and overnutrition are co-existing health issues in several countries across Asia. Poor
complementary feeding (CF) is a significant determinant of malnutrition in children and a …