The Ecology of Infant Weight Gain in a Pre‐industrial Society

Cravioto, J; Birch, Herbert G.; Licardie, E R De; Rosales, L.

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1967.tb15346.x

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“…In particular, the effect of the socio-economic background (SES) on cognitive development is well known; since, in LDCs, chronic nutritional deprivation is found in communities where children are exposed to substandard learning environments (Cravioto et al, 1967;Martorell, 1984), studies of malnutrition and behavior must control for the confounding effects of other factors at the level of the individual child. Furthermore, the measurement of the socioeconomic background must account for nonnutritional factors.…”

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Interaction of nutritional and socioeconomic status as determinants of cognitive development in disadvantaged urban Guatemalan children

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et al. 1987

American J Phys Anthropol

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The relationship between nutritional status, measured by height for age, and cognition, measured by WISC full-scale IQ, was studied in a longitudinal sample of 459 urban Guatemalan children, aged 4-9 years, from a disadvantage community of the fringe of Guatemala City, examined annually over a 3 year period. Socioeconomic status (SES) was controlled by developing a composite index for each home. The mean IQ differed significantly from the lowest to the highest quartiles of stature, the difference between the two extreme quartiles being approximately 0.3 SD of IQ. There was a significant interaction between SES and stature in their effects on IQ. Whereas nutritional status and SES affected IQ in an additive fashion in the upper three SES quartiles, there was no difference in IQ attributible to stature among children from the most disadvantaged homes. This analysis indicates that the mild-to-moderate protein-energy malnutrition (defined by height for age) that is prevalent among children from disadvantaged environments in developing countries is significantly related to cognitive development. However, in the poorest homes, SES is seen as a more important determinant of cognitive development than stature.

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Interaction of nutritional and socioeconomic status as determinants of cognitive development in disadvantaged urban Guatemalan children

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Baessa

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American J Phys Anthropol

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“…In another sample from rural Guatemala, however, Martorell found that children who had a greater frequency of diarrheal infections displayed significantly smaller growth increments,27'28 and Cravioto and his associates, also in Guate-mala, noted that more of the infants with low weight gain had high frequencies of illness. 29 The present study is a further attempt to analyze the relationship between frequency of illness in childhood and growth.…”

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Morbidity and growth of infants and young children in a rural Mexican village.

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Johnston³

et al. 1977

Am J Public Health

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Abstract:The relationship between childhood illnesses and growth increments in length and weight was investigated in a 13-month birth cohort of rural Mexican children. Increments in length and weight for each year from birth to three years were related to high and low frequencies of reported time ill during the same period. Seventy-two of the 276 children had already been characterized as exhibiting "growth failure" relative to other members of the cohorts, and this was considered as a separate factor in the study. We found that upper and

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“…In a study of Nigerian children, Ladipo and Adelusi (1977) found an incidence rate of 24.9 percent, while Arora, Rao and Rao (1963) in India found a rate of just over 30 percent. Cravioto et al (1967) found that 18 percent of children born in one village in Guatemala had birthweights of less than 2500 g, and yet another study in Guatemala showed an incidence rate of 20 percent (Susser, 1981). Mata etal.…”

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Commentary: The etiology of low birthweight and its economic impact in developing countries

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1984

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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The Ecology of Infant Weight Gain in a Pre‐industrial Society

Cited by 51 publications

References 4 publications

Interaction of nutritional and socioeconomic status as determinants of cognitive development in disadvantaged urban Guatemalan children

Interaction of nutritional and socioeconomic status as determinants of cognitive development in disadvantaged urban Guatemalan children

Morbidity and growth of infants and young children in a rural Mexican village.

Commentary: The etiology of low birthweight and its economic impact in developing countries

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