ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2021
Relationships between dietary diversity and early childhood developmental outcomes in rural China.
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- A Systematic Review of the Relation between Complementary Feeding and Children's Development.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic Literature Review of the Nutrient Status, Intake, and Diet Quality of Chinese Children across Different Age Groups.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Acceptable diet and dietary diversity across countries in infants aged 6-23 months: a multi-country big data analysis from 1999 to 2021.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Food Poverty and Early Childhood Development Across Food Insecurity Levels in Brazil.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Leveraging machine learning algorithm to predict minimum dietary diversity among children aged 6-23 months in Ethiopia.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Factors Associated With Complementary Feeding Practices in Afghanistan: Analysis of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2022-2023.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Diverse weaning foods and diet patterns at multiple time points during infancy period and their association with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 6-year-old children.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Observational
- Association between the Infant and Child Feeding Index at 8 months and early childhood neurodevelopment.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Determinants of animal source food consumption among children aged 6-23 months in sub-Saharan Africa: multilevel mixed effect model.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Child developmental delay and its associated factors among children aged 12-59 months in Dembecha district, Northwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- A systematic review of dietary data collection methodologies for diet diversity indicators.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Dietary diversity and development among early childhood children in rural China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Neurodevelopment and Dietary Intake in Toddlers-A Cross-Sectional Study from the Healthy Children 2021 Project.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Minimum dietary diversity and consumption of ultra-processed foods among Brazilian children 6-23 months of age.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
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- Wealth- and education-related inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Indonesian infants and young children: a decomposition analysis.Global health action · 2022Article
- Structural Determinants of Child Health in Rural China: The Challenge of Creating Health Equity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Diet and development among children aged 36-59 months in low-income countries.Archives of disease in childhood · 2022Article
- 'Mens sana in corpore Sano': Home food consumption implications over child cognitive performance in vulnerable contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The period from birth to 2years of age is highly sensitive with respect to the relationship between nutrition and neurodevelopment, but data regarding the association between dietary diversity and early childhood neurodevelopment are limited. We sought to examine the association of two feeding indicators-minimum dietary diversity (MDD) and minimum meal frequency (MMF)-with the neurodevelopment of children aged 6-23 months, using data from a cross-sectional survey conducted in six rural counties in China. Data on 1,534 children were analysed using logistic regression to explore the associations between dietary diversity and early neurodevelopment, with adjustments for the age, sex and prematurity of the child; the age, sex and educational level of the caregiver; and family size, income and simulative care practices and resources. We found that 32.4% of children had suspected developmental delays based on the Chinese version of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires Version 3, whereas 77.0% and 39.2% failed to meet the MDD and MMF, respectively. Meeting the MDD was associated with a 39% lower risk of developmental delays (AOR = 0.61, 95% CI [0.43, 0.86]). There was a significant association between MDD and reduced likelihood of developmental delays in gross motor, fine motor, problem-solving and personal social subscales, whereas MMF was only associated with a lower risk of developmental delays in the gross motor subscale (AOR = 0.63, 95% CI [0.42, 0.94]). We observed an inverse dose-response relationship between the number of food groups consumed and the risk of developmental delays (P < .001).
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