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Anthropometry, body composition and chronic disease risk factors among Zambian school-aged children who experienced severe malnutrition in early childhood.
- Source :
- British Journal of Nutrition; 8/14/2022, Vol. 128 Issue 3, p453-460, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The article reports that There is limited information as to whether people who experience severe acute malnutrition (SAM) as young children are at increased risk of overweight, high body fat and associated chronic diseases in later life. We followed up, when aged 7-12 years, 100 Zambian children who were hospitalised for SAM before age 2 years and eighty-five neighbourhood controls who had never experienced SAM.
- Subjects :
- CHRONIC disease risk factors
BODY composition
GLYCOSYLATED hemoglobin
CONFIDENCE intervals
COMMUNICABLE diseases
ANTHROPOMETRY
HIP joint
LEAN body mass
SYSTOLIC blood pressure
AGE distribution
REGRESSION analysis
SEVERITY of illness index
RISK assessment
COMPARATIVE studies
MALNUTRITION
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ANEMIA
ILIUM
ACUTE diseases
LONGITUDINAL method
LIPIDS
EVALUATION
DISEASE complications
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071145
- Volume :
- 128
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158290999
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114521003457