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 …

Background Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death
is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and …

This article explores how child growth has changed over the past 150 years and links
changes in child growth to the recent decline in child stunting in low‐and middle‐income …

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 …

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 …

Background Antibiotic use during early infancy has been linked to childhood obesity in high-
income countries. We evaluated whether a single oral dose of azithromycin administered …

Background We aimed to estimate latent foetal growth conditions and explore their
determinants among maternal characteristics and ultrasound biometric parameters. We …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To investigate birth-to-childhood tracking of linear growth and
weight gain across the distribution of length/height and weight for age z-scores and …

Objectives Working women have complex challenges regarding parenting, giving nutrition,
and raising children. This research analyses the factors related to stunting in children under …

We combine remote-sensed data and individual child, mother, and household level data for
five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and …