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15.8. Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings

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...

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15.8. Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings

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