Height-for-age z scores increase despite increasing height deficits among children in 5 developing countries

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 821-825

  Lundeen, Elizabeth A ^a,g   Stein, Aryeh D ^b,g   Adair, Linda S ^c   Behrman, Jere R ^d   Bhargava, Santosh K ^e   Dearden, Kirk A ^f   Gigante, Denise ^k   Norris, Shane A ^g   Richter, Linda M ^g,h   Fall, Caroline H D ⁱ   Martorell, Reynaldo ^b   Sachdev, Harshpal Singh ^j   Victora, Cesar G ^k  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Sunder Lal Jain Hospital   (India)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^h HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^j SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^k FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BRAZIL; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GROWTH DISORDER; GUATEMALA; HEIGHT FOR AGE Z SCORE; HUMAN; INFANT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STUNTING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UPREGULATION; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GROWTH CHARTS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UP-REGULATION; WAIST-HEIGHT RATIO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84907334454     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.114.084368     Document Type: Article

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