Nutrition Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Conditions
Interventions
A database of cross-sectional survey datasets containing data for almost 1.8 million children was compiled. This was analysed to determine the intersection between sets of wasted, stunted, and underwe
the association between being wasted and being stunted
the severity of wasting and stunting in WaSt children
and the prevalence of WaSt by age and sex. An additional analysis of the WHO Growth Standards sought the maximum possible weight-for-age z-score for WaSt children.
Sponsors
Emergency Nutrition Network
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. 6-59 month old children 2. Males and females
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Children over 59 months of age
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Overlap between wasted, stunted and underweight children as measured by <-2SD WHZ, HAZ, WAZ | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Degree of concurrence i.e. <-2SDWHZ AND ,-2SDHAZ in children and by age (6-59 months) and by sex (male/female) | — |
Countries
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Outcome results
None listed