INTRODUCTION Concerns have been raised about childhood obesity and its long-term impact on the health of children. The objective of this study was to investigate rural-urban differences in body composition, energy intake, physical activity and screen time in New Zealand children. METHODS This study reports on data collected in a large national cross-sectional population survey of 5-15 year-ol...

BACKGROUND There are very few community-based studies on the prevalence of asthma in Indian children. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of asthma in children under 12 years of age and to study possible differences in the prevalence of childhood asthma in urban and rural areas of Tamil Nadu. METHODS A total of 584 children from Chennai and 271 children from 25 villages around Chennai formed ...

BACKGROUND Most rural homes in Bangladesh have ponds nearby to serve as household water sources. As a result children of all ages are exposed to water bodies on a daily basis. Children learn to swim early in childhood from peers and relatives in a natural process that involves play and structured learning. In a large, national injury survey in Bangladesh, the ability to swim was associated with...

BACKGROUND Urban living affects children's nutrition and growth, which are determinants of their survival, cognitive development, and lifelong health. Little is known about urban-rural differences in children's height and weight, and how these differences have changed over time. We aimed to investigate trends in children's height and weight in rural and urban settings in low-income and middle-i...

OBJECTIVE To compare the weight status of women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged rural and urban neighbourhoods in Victoria. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional study of data collected between August 2007 and July 2008 as part of the Resilience for Eating and Activity Despite Inequality (READI) study. Women aged 18-45 years living in 40 rural and 40 urban so...

BACKGROUND Since 2003 pediatric antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs have scaled-up in sub-Saharan Africa and should be evaluated to assess progress and identify areas for improvement. We evaluated secular trends in the characteristics and treatment outcomes of children in three pediatric ART clinics in urban and rural areas in Zambia. METHODS Routinely collected data were analyzed from th...

Background: Good nutrition is essential for attainment of normal growth and development of children. We cannot hope for a healthy future for India with such a large number of malnourished children. The aim of this study is to assess the nutritional status of pre-school children attending anganwadi centres of urban and rural areas. Materials and Methods: Non experimental research approach with d...

1. Preschool children and schoolchildren from a rural area in the northeast of Thailand were compared with children from urban areas for prealbumin, albumin, transferrin, alpha 1 B-glucoprotein, the acute-phase reactants alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, haptoglobin and the proteinase inhibitors alpha 1-protease inhibitor (A1PI) as well as alpha 2-microglobulin (alpha 2M). Ur...

The aim of this study was to determine how malnutrition rates change in young Chinese children when 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards are used instead of 1978 WHO/National Center for Health Statistics reference. Cross-sectional survey data were used from rural western China and the Tibet region. The heights and weights of children of <36 months of age were measured. The nutr...