Faltering in Infant Growth in Less-Developed Countries

Waterlow, J. C.; Ashworth, Ann; Griffiths, M

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(80)92606-9

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“…The cumulative probability of low height for age was assessed as it reflects a process of failure to reach linear growth potential as a result of suboptimal health and/or nutritional conditions. 28 As stunting is a severe event in lowincome countries, especially when it starts early in infancy, 31 our intent was to detect the proportion of infants who were exposed at least once to this risk. This analysis was coupled with the estimations of the mean z scores.…”

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Complementary Feeding Adequacy in Relation to Nutritional Status Among Early Weaned Breastfed Children Who Are Born to HIV-Infected Mothers: ANRS 1201/1202 Ditrame Plus, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

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Adequate feeding practices around the weaning period are crucial to achieving optimal child growth. HIV-infected women should turn to early cessation of breastfeeding only when they are counseled properly to provide adequate complementary feeding to take over breast milk. Our child feeding index could contribute to the assessment of the nutritional adequacy of complementary feeding around the weaning period and therefore help to detect children who are at risk for malnutrition.

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Complementary Feeding Adequacy in Relation to Nutritional Status Among Early Weaned Breastfed Children Who Are Born to HIV-Infected Mothers: ANRS 1201/1202 Ditrame Plus, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

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“…The mean for American Samoans is well above that found in previous studies, including developed and developing countries, and regardless of method of feeding, birthweight class or obesity status later in life. The means for American Samoans is almost one kilogram higher than that found in any of the developing countries summarized by Waterlow, Ashworth and Griffiths (1980). Figure 4 shows the daily rates of weight gain in boys and girls according to method of feeding for infants measured between one and four months of age.…”

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Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants

Pelletier

Bindon

1986

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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Well baby clinic records on 1, 186 infants born in 1975 to 1976 on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, form the basis for this study of the growth in weight and length from birth to 12 months. Semi-longitudinal curves of weight and length indicate that these infants have median weights near the NCHS 75th percentile (boys) and 90th percentile (girls) up to 6 months, falling to just below the 75th percentile by 12 months. Median lengths are between the NCHS 50th and 25th percentile. Weight gain from birth to six months was found to be higher than for any other reported population (4.92 kg, sexes combined). The infant feeding pattern was found to exert a significant influence on rate of weight gain for boys between birth and 1-4 months, with the breast-fed boys gaining more rapidly than artificial-fed infants.

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“…There is wide agreenent on the fact that this does not reflect genetic differences [5 1. Because the infants who have this growth pattern are breast-fed, the faltering in growth has been attributed to insufficient food, or to increased exposure to infection [35,42]. It is, however, extremely difficult to determine the exact reasons for this faltering in growth.…”

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confidence: 99%