Growth faltering in early infancy: highlights from a two-day scientific consultation

Early-Childhood Growth Faltering, Post-Infancy Recovery and Educational Outcomes in Late Childhood: Evidence from Vietnam

We use longitudinal data on over 1,500 children born in 2001 in Vietnam to study the impact of early childhood stunting on height, lagging in schooling progression and cognitive outcomes in late childhood (age 8-10 years). Our preferred estimates utilize 2SLS estimators to control for the endogenous determination of early childhood stunting and also include control for child sex and birth order...

Growth outcomes of weight faltering in infancy in ALSPAC.

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to investigate growth outcomes in term infants with weight faltering. METHODS Conditional weight gain was calculated on term infants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Cases of weight faltering were infants with a conditional weight gain below the fifth centile. Outcome growth measurements included weight and length/height (from 9 mo...

Weight faltering and failure to thrive in infancy and early childhood.

Successive 1-Month Weight Increments in Infancy Can Be Used to Screen for Faltering Linear Growth.

BACKGROUND Linear growth faltering in the first 2 y contributes greatly to a high stunting burden, and prevention is hampered by the limited capacity in primary health care for timely screening and intervention. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine an approach to predicting long-term stunting from consecutive 1-mo weight increments in the first year of life. METHODS By using the referenc...

Highlights from ACC.17 scientific sessions