An Anthropometric Survey of 1,074 Pre-school Children in Southern Rwanda, Central Equatorial Africa

Dowler, Elizabeth; Luck, B.; Robson, V. A.; Kigeme, E. A. R.

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“…Almost 47 percent showed some degree of stunting by the end of the first year and this increased to 71.4 percent by the end of the fifth year (Table VI). A similar pattern was reported from Ruanda (Dowler et al, 1980) and other parts of the world (Keller, Donoso and Maeyer, 1976). This state of chronic malnutrition we attribute to continual nutritional deprivation in addition to recurrent attacks of infections.…”

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Nutritional status of preschool children in central Saudi Arabia

Abdullah

Swailem

Taha

1982

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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The nutritional status of 337 preschool children (aged 0-5) living in two rural Saudi villages was assessed by clinical examination and measuring weight-for-age, weight-for-height and height-for-age. Only 39.2 percent were found to have normal weight-for-age. The weight-for-height was normal in 76.3 percent, whereas 33.7 percent were considered as wasted (weight-for-height less than 90 percent of standard). Wasting was commonest among the 12-23 months age group. Almost 60 percent had height-for-age less than 95 percent of standard (stunted). The percentage of stunted children increased with age. combining wasting and stunting, only 31 percent were labelled as normal and 0.9 percent had severe malnutrition and needed hospitalization, whereas the rest needed some nutritional intervention. Ignorance and infection rather than poverty played the major role in the aetiology of malnutrition in the villages studied.

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Nutritional status of preschool children in central Saudi Arabia

Abdullah

Swailem

Taha

1982

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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A Study of Prevalence of Protein Energy Malnutrition among 0–5 Years in Rural Benue State, Nigeria

Abidoye

Sikabofori

1999

Nutr Health

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Three hundred and seventy pre-school children (181 males and 189 females) were studied in order to document the prevalence of protein energy malnutrition and factors that militate it. The prevalence of protein energy malnutrition among the children was revealed to be 41.6% (154). One hundred and fiftyone (40.8%) of them were found to have weight-for-height below -2SD indicating level of stunting among the children. Most malnourished children belonged to mothers who were illiterate 97 (54.8%) when viewed from the mothers’ educational perspective. This study also showed the following factors that were statistically significant with PEM: educational status of mothers (p<0.05), marital status (p<0.05) of mothers, occupational status of mothers (p=0.000), parental income per annum (p=0.000), length of breastfeeding (p=0.000), water supply and regularity, type of housing and toilet facilities. Intensification of health education aimed at encouraging beneficial childhood feeding practices in the community is needed together with further study on the subject, which will be directed at actual analysis of the nutritive values of available local foodstuffs as a prerequisite for an effective intervention programme.

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An Anthropometric Survey of 1,074 Pre-school Children in Southern Rwanda, Central Equatorial Africa

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Nutritional status of preschool children in central Saudi Arabia

Nutritional status of preschool children in central Saudi Arabia

A Study of Prevalence of Protein Energy Malnutrition among 0–5 Years in Rural Benue State, Nigeria

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