ReviewMaternal & child nutrition2019
Measuring growth and medium- and longer-term outcomes in malnourished children.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of critical illness and withholding of early parenteral nutrition in the pediatric intensive care unit on long-term physical performance of children: a 4-year follow-up of the PEPaNIC randomized controlled trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Trial
- Longitudinal assessments of child growth: A six-year follow-up of a cluster-randomized maternal education trial.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2021Trial
- Body Composition Changes in Children during Treatment for Moderate Acute Malnutrition: Findings from a 4-Arm Cluster-Randomized Trial in Sierra Leone.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
- Body composition during outpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition: Results from a randomised trial testing different doses of ready-to-use therapeutic foods.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2020Trial
- Anthropometric and Body-Composition Changes in Severely Acute Malnourished Children (12-59 Months) Post-Nutritional Rehabilitation: A Follow-Up Study.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2025Article
- Application of an Ecological Approach to Assessment of Nutrition in School-Aged Children-A Report from the "Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)" Project Working Group 3.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Review
- Long-term survival after therapeutic failure during hospitalization for severe acute malnutrition: Lwiro cohort follow-up in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Development of core outcome sets for effectiveness trials focused on infants and children with wasting and nutritional oedema.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Microbiome-directed food to promote sustained recovery in children with uncomplicated acute malnutrition: protocol for a randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Adolescents' health literacy is directly associated with their physical activity but indirectly with their body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness: mediation analysis of the Slovak HBSC study data.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Examining determinants of stunting in Urban and Rural Indonesian: a multilevel analysis using the population-based Indonesian family life survey (IFLS).BMC public health · 2024Article
- Patterns in child stunting by age: A cross-sectional study of 94 low- and middle-income countries.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Childhood BMI and other measures of body composition as a predictor of cardiometabolic non-communicable diseases in adulthood: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2023Review
- Association between the dietary literacy of children's daily diet providers and school-age children's nutritional status and eating behaviours: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- A review of the prevalence, trends, and determinants of coexisting forms of malnutrition in neonates, infants, and children.BMC public health · 2022Review
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- The Role of Milk Protein and Whey Permeate in Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements on the Growth and Development of Stunted Children in Uganda: A Randomized Trial Protocol (MAGNUS).Current developments in nutrition · 2021Article
- Pediatric undernutrition defined by body composition-are we there yet?The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- 'Severe malnutrition': thinking deeply, communicating simply.BMJ global health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Severe and moderate acute malnutrition are among the leading causes of mortality among children in low- and middle-income countries. There is strong evidence that growth assessed anthropometrically from conception to 2 years of age marks later risk of ill health. This is central to the concept of the developmental origins of adult disease and is presumed to be related to modification of developmental processes during critical "window(s)" of vulnerability. Interventions to treat acute malnutrition have resulted in dramatic increase in the number of affected children surviving. Ensuring that these children thrive to fulfil their full physical and cognitive potential is a new challenge. Integral to this challenge is the need to be able to measure how earlier insults relate to the ability to survive and thrive to productive adulthood. Despite its obvious value, routine anthropometry does not adequately indicate how earlier adverse exposures affect more refined aspects of growth. Anthropometry is inadequate for predicting how disruption of healthy growth might modulate risk of disease or any subsequent interventions that correct this risk. A clear characterisation of healthy child growth is needed for determining which component best predicts later outcomes. The extent to which postnatal acute malnutrition is a consequence of maternal factors acting preconception or in utero and their relationship to postnatal health and long-term risk of non-communicable diseases is not clear. Body-composition measurement has significant untapped potential allowing us to translate and better understand the relationship between early insults and interventions on early growth in the short-term and long-term health outcomes.
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