ey0021.15-8 | New Concerns | ESPEYB21
A Mertens
, J Benjamin-Chung
, JM, Jr. Colford
, J Coyle
, MJ van der Laan
, AE Hubbard
, S Rosete
, I Malenica
, N Hejazi
, O Sofrygin
, W Cai
, H Li
, A Nguyen
, NN Pokpongkiat
, S Djajadi
, A Seth
, E Jung
, EO Chung
, W Jilek
, V Subramoney
, R Hafen
, J Haggstrom
, T Norman
, KH Brown
, P Christian
, BF Arnold
, The Ki Child Growth Consortium.
In Brief: The authors perform a population intervention effects analysis of 33 longitudinal cohorts (total 83 671 children, 662 763 measurements), from 15 low- and middle-income counties (LMICs). They estimate that improving maternal anthropometry and child condition at birth would increase population mean length-for-age z-scores by up to 0.40 and weight-for-length z -scores by up to 0.15 by 24 months of age.This is 1 of 3 full articles publishe...