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Relative importance of prenatal and postnatal determinants of stunting: data mining approaches to the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh.
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- Evaluation of attitudes of university students towards artificial intelligence using data mining methods.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mitigating the Impact of Intergenerational Risk Factors on Stunting: Insights From Seven of the Most Food Insecure Districts in South Africa.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Genetic Perception Versus Nutritional Factors: Analyzing the Indigenous Baduy Community's Understanding of Stunting as a Health Issue.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Exploring Factors Associated with Stunting in 6-Month-Old Children: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Stunting at birth: linear growth failure at an early age among newborns in Hawassa city public health hospitals, Sidama region, Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study.Journal of nutritional science · 2023Article
- Birth length is the strongest predictor of linear growth status and stunting in the first 2 years of life after a preconception maternal nutrition intervention: the children of the Women First trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- Biomass fuel use and birth weight among term births in Nigeria.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Research on E-Commerce Data Standard System in the Era of Digital Economy From the Perspective of Organizational Psychology.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Understanding drivers of stunting reduction in Nigeria from 2003 to 2018: a regression analysis.Food security · 2022Article
- Influence of intrauterine factors on birth weight and on child linear growth in rural Ethiopia: A prospective cohort study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Maternal experience of domestic violence before and during pregnancy and children's linear growth at 15 years: Findings from MINIMat trial in rural Bangladesh.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Do Early Infant Feeding Practices and Modifiable Household Behaviors Contribute to Age-Specific Interindividual Variations in Infant Linear Growth? Evidence from a Birth Cohort in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Current developments in nutrition · 2021Article
- The effect of nutrition and reproductive health education of pregnant women in Indonesia using quasi experimental study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Higher maternal parathyroid hormone concentration at delivery is not associated with smaller newborn size.Endocrine connections · 2021Article
- Sociodemographic risk factors of under-five stunting in Bangladesh: Assessing the role of interactions using a machine learning method.PloS one · 2021Article
- Child Electronic Growth Monitoring System: An innovative and sustainable approach for establishing the Kaduna Infant Development (KID) Study in Nigeria.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionWHO has set a goal to reduce the prevalence of stunted child growth by 40% by the year 2025. To reach this goal, it is imperative to establish the relative importance of risk factors for stunting to deliver appropriate interventions. Currently, most interventions take place in late infancy and early childhood. This study aimed to identify the most critical prenatal and postnatal determinants of linear growth 0-24 months and the risk factors for stunting at 2 years, and to identify subgroups with different growth trajectories and levels of stunting at 2 years.
methodsConditional inference tree-based methods were applied to the extensive Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab trial database with 309 variables of 2723 children, their parents and living conditions, including socioeconomic, nutritional and other biological characteristics of the parents; maternal exposure to violence; household food security; breast and complementary feeding; and measurements of morbidity of the mothers during pregnancy and repeatedly of their children up to 24 months of age. Child anthropometry was measured monthly from birth to 12 months, thereafter quarterly to 24 months.
resultsBirth length and weight were the most critical factors for linear growth 0-24 months and stunting at 2 years, followed by maternal anthropometry and parental education. Conditions after birth, such as feeding practices and morbidity, were less strongly associated with linear growth trajectories and stunting at 2 years.
conclusionThe results of this study emphasise the benefit of interventions before conception and during pregnancy to reach a substantial reduction in stunting.
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