ArticleGlobal health action2018
Overweight, stunting, and concurrent overweight and stunting observed over 3 years in Vietnamese children.
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- Situational analysis of nutritional status among 1899 children presenting with cleft lip and/or palate in Indonesia.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Concurrent stunting and overweight or obesity among under-five children in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- The coexistence of stunting and overweight or obesity in Ethiopian children: prevalence, trends and associated factors.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Co-existence of overweight/obesity and stunting: it's prevalence and associated factors among under - five children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- A review of the prevalence, trends, and determinants of coexisting forms of malnutrition in neonates, infants, and children.BMC public health · 2022Review
- Double burden of malnutrition and its association with infant and young child feeding practices among children under-five in Thailand.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Household structure and concurrent stunting and overweight among young children in Indonesia.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Low lung function in the developing world is analogous to stunting: a review of the evidence.Wellcome open research · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundMalnutrition, both stunting and overweight/obesity, present a public health concern in many countries in the world.
objectiveThis study aims to examine: (1) longitudinal changes in prevalence of overweight, stunting, and concurrent overweight and stunting among preschool children during 3 years and (2) secular changes in these prevalences of a specific age group of children aged 5.5-6.5 year over a period of 3 years.
methodsA cohort of 2,602 children initially aged 3-6 years old, 1,311 in an urban area and 1,291 in a rural area, was followed for 3 years. Of them, children aged 5.5-6.5 years old were identified to be included in three repeated cross-sectional surveys. The World Health Organization standard was used to classify children with overweight or stunting.
resultsFindings from the cohort study indicate that between 2013 and 2016, the estimated prevalence of overweight including obesity (OWOB) increased with age, particularly in the urban setting (14.2%-29.9% in boys and 9.0%-21.6% in girls). The estimated prevalence of stunting decreased from 8.2% to 3.4% in boys and 9.5% to 3.5% in girls with a considerably greater decrease among rural children. There was a similar pattern of an age-related decrease of concurrent OWOB and stunting from 2.4% in 2013 to 1.4% in 2016 in boys and from 2.9% to 1.3% in girls with significant decreases in rural children. Secular trends in the group of children 5.5 to 6.5 show the same pattern as the longitudinal results: decreasing prevalence of stunting as well as concurrent OWOB and stunting. OWOB prevalence increased significantly in urban girls and rural boys.
conclusionsThe pattern of increasing overweight, decreasing stunting and concurrent overweight and stunting both with increasing age and over chronological time is observed among Vietnamese preschool children.
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