Background : Stunting is the most common malnutrition condition found in children around world. Many factors can affect toddler nutritional status and cause stunting them. They include genetic factors, family socioeconomic level, medical history feeding practices. The present study aims to determine impact of those on incidence aged 1-5 years. Subjects Method: data was analyzed using cross-sect...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether maternal anthropometry predicted birth weight, and if so, to identify which cut-offs provided the best prediction of low birth weight (LBW) in a field situation. DESIGN Community-based longitudinal study. SETTING A rural union of Bhaluka Upazila, Mymensingh, located 110 km north-west of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1104 normotens...

Adult height is determined by genetic potential and by net nutrition, the balance between food intake and the demands on it, including the demands of disease, most importantly during early childhood. Historians have made effective use of recorded heights to indicate living standards, in both health and income, for periods where there are few other data. Understanding the determinants of height ...

BACKGROUND Preschool children call for focused attention in India because India has the highest percentage of undernourished children in the world. OBJECTIVE To compare the growth and nutritional status of Indian preschool children for the periods 1998/99 and 2005/06, SUBJECTS AND METHODS Using data on weight and length/height as well as the sociodemographic background of preschool children...

In Japan, the rate of low birth weight infants has increased, due to an increase in the number of women who smoke or are lean. A recent study showed that low birth weight was associated with a high adult waist-to-height ratio in adult Japanese women, but little data is available concerning children. In this cross-sectional study with 568 subjects (276 boys and 292 girls), we examined the associ...

Adult height is determined by genetics and childhood nutrition, but childhood infections may also play a role. Monozygotic twins are genetically matched and offer an advantage when identifying environmental determinants. In 2005-2007, we examined the association of childhood infections with adult height in 140 height-discordant monozygotic twin pairs from the California Twin Program. To obtain ...

BACKGROUND Maternal gestational weight gain (GWG) is a risk factor for the development of overweight in her child. It is unknown whether GWG programs the child's health or whether GWG indicates a shared familial lifestyle during childhood. To disentangle these influences, we studied the association of GWG and postdelivery maternal weight change simultaneously with child's weight development. ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between breast milk fat content with maternal anthropometric status, energy and macronutrient intake and weight for age Z-score of exclusively breastfed infants. Breast milk samples and information on energy and macronutrients intake (using 24-hour recall method for 3 days) were collected from 182 lactating women. Weight and height of mo...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to determine the relationship between the 4 parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful) and overweight status in first grade. METHODS Data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were analyzed. Children with complete data for parenting parameters at 54 months and me...

The pregnancies of two women with osteogenesis imperfecta who received intravenous pamidronate before conception are reported. The mothers suffered no ill effects. One baby had transient asymptomatic hypocalcemia and one had bilateral talipes equinovarus. This report documents the pregnancy outcomes of two women with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), types I and IV, who received intravenous pamidro...