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Abstract
Risk factors for wasting and stunting were examined in a longitudinal study of 18 544 children younger than 30 mo in Metro Cebu, Philippines. Measures of household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, maternal characteristics and behavior, and child biological variables were analyzed cross-sectionally in six child age-residence strata by using logistic regression. Our results support biological and epidemiologic evidence that wasting and stunting represent different processes of malnutrition. They also indicate that the principal risk factors for stunting and wasting in infants < 6 mo of age were either maternal behaviors or child biological characteristics under maternal control, eg, breast-feeding status and birth weight. After 6 mo of age, household socioeconomic characteristics emerged with behavioral and biological variables as important determinants of malnutrition, eg, father's education and presence of a television and/or radio. Household socioeconomic status influenced the risk of stunting earlier in rural than in urban barangays. Implications of the results for interventions are discussed.Entities:
Keywords: Age Factors; Anthropometry; Asia; Behavior; Biology; Birth Weight; Body Weight; Breast Feeding; Data Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Diseases; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Fathers; Health; Households; Infant; Infant Nutrition; Linear Regression; Longitudinal Studies; Malnutrition--determinants; Measurement; Mothers; Nutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Parents; Philippines; Physiology; Population; Population Characteristics; Research Methodology; Research Report; Risk Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southeastern Asia; Statistical Regression; Studies; Urban Population; Youth
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Year: 1996 PMID： 8644694 DOI： 10.1093/ajcn/63.6.966
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Clin Nutr ISSN： 0002-9165 Impact factor: 7.045