ArticlePloS one2026
Household wealth is associated with child stunting but not wasting: Evidence from the 2024 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey.
Article in PloS one, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Child undernutrition remains a significant population health challenge in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Existing research has established an association between socioeconomic factors and child undernutrition, but less attention has been paid to whether the socioeconomic gradient is similar across indicators that capture different underlying processes. Drawing on fundamental cause theory, this study examines the association between household wealth and child stunting and wasting in Nigeria, and the extent to which that association is attenuated by other socioeconomic and geographic factors. Using the 2024 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (n = 9,410 children for stunting; n = 9,464 for wasting), Survey-weighted logistic regression models were fitted, using stepwise model building and joint tests of interaction. Household wealth was associated with stunting in a graded pattern but showed no association with wasting. The findings suggest that chronic and acute undernutrition may not share the same social determinants and may call for different interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.