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ArticleBMC nutrition2022

The prevalence and socio-demographic risk factors of coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight among children under five years in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.

Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Md Shafiur Rahman, Baki Billah, Russell Kabir, Nirmala K P Perera, Manzur Kader

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Mohammad Rocky Khan ChowdhuryDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Md Shafiur RahmanResearch Center for Child Mental Development, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
Baki BillahDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Russell KabirSchool of Allied Health, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, London, United Kingdom.
Nirmala K P PereraNuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Manzur KaderDepartment of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Karolinska Institutet, Maria Aspmans gata 30A, 17164, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden. manzur.kader@ki.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-648X

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backgroundChildhood stunting, wasting and underweight are significant public health challenges. There is a gap in knowledge of the coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight among children under five years (under-5) in Bangladesh. This study aims to (i) describe the prevalence of the coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight and ii) examine the risk factors for the coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight among children under-5 in Bangladesh.

methodsThis study included 6,610 and 7,357 under-5 children from Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys (BDHS) 2014 and 2017/18, respectively. The associations between the coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight and independent variables were assessed using the Chi-square test of independence. The effects of associated independent variables were examined using negative binomial regression.

resultsThe prevalence of coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight gradually declined from 5.2% in 2014 to 2.7% in 2017/18. Children born with low birth weight ((adjusted incidence rate ratios, aIRR) 2.31, 95% CI 1.64, 3.24)); children of age group 36-47 months (aIRR 2.26, 95% CI 1.67, 3.08); children from socio-economically poorest families (aIRR 2.02, 95% CI 1.36, 2.98); children of mothers with no formal education (aIRR 1.98, 95% CI 1.25, 3.15); and children of underweight mothers (aIRR 1.73, 95% CI 1.44, 2.08) were the most important risk factors. Further, lower incidence among children with the coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight was observed in the 2017-18 survey (aIRR 0.59, 95% CI 0.49, 0.70) compared to children in the 2014 survey.

conclusionsOne out of thirty-five under-5 children was identified to have coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight in Bangladesh. The burden of coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight was disproportionate among children born with low birth weight, socio-economically poorest, a mother with no formal education, and underweight mothers, indicating the need for individual, household, and societal-level interventions to reduce the consequences of coexistence of stunting, wasting, and underweight.

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BangladeshBDHSBinomial regressionChild anthropometryGrowth failureUnder 5 children

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