ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2021
Nutritional and weight status of Indian mother-child dyads experienced by a natural disaster.
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- Impacts of climate change on childhood obesity: an updated systematic literature review.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Mid-upper arm circumference as a tool to assess the nutritional status of pregnant women and associated factors.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Impacts of tropical cyclones on food security, health and biodiversity.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
- Prenatal and early postnatal exposure to a natural disaster and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms in Indian children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Relative Body Fat Distribution in Preadolescent Indian Children Exposed to a Natural Disaster during Early Development.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Nutritional and weight status of Indian mother-child dyads experienced by a natural disaster.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Natural disasters have detrimental effects not only on local infrastructure in an affected population but may also have an impact on the human biological condition, particularly during critical periods of life. This study aimed to assess the nutritional and weight status of women and their children who had experienced cyclone Aila prenatally and postnatally in comparison with a non-affected neighbouring group. The study sample involved N = 597 dyads consisting of mothers and their prepubertal children prenatally or postnatally (during infancy) exposed to a natural disaster and a control group from a neighbouring region (West Bengal, India). The analysed anthropometric indices involved body mass index (BMI) and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC). Moreover, several socioeconomic characteristics were collected (mother's and father's education, family size and family income). Analyses revealed that the group factor (Aila-exposed or non-exposed groups) had the highest impact on both children's and their mothers' BMI and MUAC (p < 0.001) in comparison with socioeconomic variables. Surprisingly, both mothers and their children revealed deteriorated nutritional and relative weight status several years after the occurrence of cyclone Aila, which is in opposition to the results obtained in developed countries, where prenatal maternal stress caused by the natural disaster led to the subsequent higher risk of excessive weight in affected children.
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