Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Implications for Nutritional Interventions
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Worldwide timing of growth faltering: implications for nutritional interventions.
OBJECTIVE It is widely assumed that growth faltering starts at around 3 months of age, but there has been no systematic assessment of its timing using representative national datasets from a variety of countries. METHODOLOGY The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition includes the results of 39 nationally representative datasets from recent surveys in develo...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.107.5.e75