Impact of early and concurrent stunting on cognition

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-409

  Crookston, Benjamin T ^a   Dearden, Kirk A ^b   Alder, Stephen C ^a   Porucznik, Christina A ^a   Stanford, Joseph B ^a   Merrill, Ray M ^c   Dickerson, Ty T ^d   Penny, Mary E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

Author keywords

Chronic undernutrition; Cognitive development; Peru; Pre school children; Stunting

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL AGE; ONSET AGE; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CLASS; STUNTING; URBAN AREA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERU; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80052632696     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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