Using height-for-age differences (HAD) instead of height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) for the meaningful measurement of population-level catch-up in linear growth in children less than 5 years of age

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Leroy, Jef L ^a   Ruel, Marie ^a   Habicht, Jean Pierre ^b   Frongillo, Edward A ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

1000 days; Catch up growth; Children; Linear growth retardation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEIGHT FOR AGE DIFFERENCE; HEIGHT FOR AGE Z SCORE; HUMAN; INDIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NUTRITION; PERU; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIET NAM; AFRICA; AGE; ASIA; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; MALE; POVERTY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; ASIA; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; POVERTY;

EID: 84942864905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-015-0458-9     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Black RE, Victora CG, Walker SP, Bhutta ZA, Christian P, de Onis M, et al. Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet. 2013;382:427-51.
2. Ruel MT, Menon P, Habicht J-P, Loechl C, Bergeron G, Pelto G, et al. Agebased preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomised trial. Lancet. 2008;371:588-95.
3. Black RE, Allen LH, Bhutta ZA, Caulfield LE, de Onis M, Ezzati M, et al. Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences. Lancet. 2008;371:243-60.
4. Victora CG, de Onis M, Hallal PC, Blössner M, Shrimpton R. Worldwide timing of growth faltering: revisiting implications for interventions. Pediatrics. 2010;125:e473-80.
5. Ruel MT. The Oriente Study: program and policy impacts. J Nutr. 2010;140:415-8.
6. Prader A, Tanner JM, von Harnack G. Catch-up growth following illness or starvation. An example of developmental canalization in man. J Pediatr. 1963;62:646-59.
7. Boersma B, Wit JM. Catch-up growth. Endocr Rev. 1997;18:646-61.
8. Martorell R, Khan LK, Schroeder DG. Reversibility of stunting: epidemiological findings in children from developing countries. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1994;45 Suppl 1:S45-57.
9. Crookston BT, Penny ME, Alder SC, Dickerson TT, Merrill RM, Stanford JB, et al. Children who recover from early stunting and children who are not stunted demonstrate similar levels of cognition. J Nutr. 2010;140:1996-2001.
10. Outes I, Porter C. Catching up from early nutritional deficits? Evidence from rural Ethiopia. Econ Hum Biol. 2013;11:148-63.
11. Prentice AM, Ward KA, Goldberg GR, Jarjou LM, Moore SE, Fulford AJ, et al. Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013;97:911-8.
12. Leroy JL, Ruel M, Habicht J-P, Frongillo EA. Linear growth deficit continues to accumulate beyond the first 1000 days in low-and middle-income countries: global evidence from 51 national surveys. J Nutr. 2014;144:1460-6.
13. Coly AN, Milet J, Diallo A, Ndiaye T, Bénéfice E, Simondon F, et al. Preschool stunting, adolescent migration, catch-up growth, and adult height in young senegalese men and women of rural origin. J Nutr. 2006;136:2412-20.
14. Adair LS. Filipino children exhibit catch-Up growth from age 2 to 12 years. J Nutr. 1999;129:1140-8.
15. Hirvonen K. Measuring catch-up growth in malnourished populations. Ann Hum Biol. 2013;4460:1-10.
16. Cameron N, Preece M, Cole TJ. Catch-up growth or regression to the mean? Recovery from stunting revisited. Am J Hum Biol. 2005;17:412-7.
17. Habicht J, Martorell R, Yarbrough C, Malina RM, Klein RE. Height and weight standards for preschool children. How relevant are ethnic differences in growth potential? Lancet. 1974;1:611-4.
18. WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Assessment of differences in linear growth among populations in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Acta Paediatr Suppl. 2006;450:56-65.
19. Barnett I, Ariana P, Petrou S, Penny ME, Duc LT, Galab S, et al. Cohort profile: the Young Lives study. Int J Epidemiol. 2013;42:701-8.
20. Stein AD, Wang M, Martorell R, Norris S, Adair LS, Bas I, et al. Growth patterns in early childhood and final attained stature: data from five birth cohorts from low-and middle-income countries. Am J Hum Biol. 2010;22:353-9.
21. WHO multicentre growth reference study group. WHO Child Growth Standards. Acta Paediatr Suppl. 2006;95(Supplement 450):1-104.
22. Child growth standards: length/height-for-age. [http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/height_for_age/en/].
23. Martorell R, Melgar P, Maluccio JA, Stein AD, Rivera JA. The nutrition intervention improved adult human capital and economic productivity. J Nutr. 2010;140:411-4.
24. Kulin HE, Bwibo N, Mutie D, Santner SJ. The effect of chronic childhood malnutrition on pubertal growth and development. Am J Clin Nutr. 1982;36:527-36.
25. Parent A-S, Teilmann G, Juul A, Skakkebaek NE, Toppari J, Bourguignon J-P. The timing of normal puberty and the age limits of sexual precocity: variations around the world, secular trends, and changes after migration. Endocr Rev. 2003;24:668-93.
26. Leroy JL, Ruel M, Habicht J-P. Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013;98:854-5.