1993
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.83.8.1130
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Epidemiologic evidence for a potentiating effect of malnutrition on child mortality.

Abstract: OBJECTIVES. Despite broad agreement that severe malnutrition contributes to child mortality in developing countries and that malnutrition has a physiologically synergistic relationship with morbidity, evidence of an epidemiologic synergism has been lacking. Also, the literature provides conflicting evidence concerning the existence of elevated mortality among children with mild to moderate malnutrition. A review of published population-based studies of anthropometry-mortality relationships was undertaken to cl… Show more

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“…Physical activity levels were assigned as follows (20) (21) . Children with indices below 21 SD from the median reference values (Z-score ,21) were considered undernourished, since mild and moderate undernutrition is a contributing cause of deaths in about 50 % of children ,5 years of age (22,23) . In older children and adolescents (5-19 years), BMI-for-age percentile was estimated and compared with the reference values from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (24) using the Epi Info software version 2002 (CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA).…”
Section: Physical Activitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Physical activity levels were assigned as follows (20) (21) . Children with indices below 21 SD from the median reference values (Z-score ,21) were considered undernourished, since mild and moderate undernutrition is a contributing cause of deaths in about 50 % of children ,5 years of age (22,23) . In older children and adolescents (5-19 years), BMI-for-age percentile was estimated and compared with the reference values from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (24) using the Epi Info software version 2002 (CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA).…”
Section: Physical Activitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Catch-up growth is an intriguing phenomenon with largely unknown dynamics (Victora & Barros, 2001). In general, better nutrition leads to improved child survival and catch-up growth (Pelletier et al, 1993). On the other hand, catch-up growth in stunted children is mainly translated into weight gain and increased risk of obesity and thus has a negative impact on long-term health .…”
Section: Nutritional Status After Malaria Control In Vietnam Lq Hung mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Insults to this critical period of development, including poor nutrition, increase the risk of morbidity and mortality among young children (Schroeder & Brown, 1994;Pelletier et al, 1993;Victora et al, 1999), and can result in lower attained size and compromised cognitive function later in life (Allen, 1993;Lozoff et al, 1991).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%