Stunting rates in infants and toddlers born in metropolitan Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

• Published in: Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 655 - 660
• Main Authors: Reurings, Marieke, M.Sc, Vossenaar, Marieke, Ph.D, Doak, Colleen M., Ph.D, Solomons, Noel W., M.D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.04.2013; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Age; Babies; Biological and medical sciences; Breastfeeding & lactation; Child Development; Children; Children & youth; Cohort Studies; Community Health Centers; Confidence intervals; Cross-Sectional Studies; Ethnicity; Family Health - ethnology; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Gender; Growth Charts; Growth Disorders - epidemiology; Growth Disorders - ethnology; Growth Disorders - etiology; Guatemala; Guatemala - epidemiology; Health facilities; Humans; Indians, Central American; Infant; Infants; Infections; Low income groups; Male; Malnutrition; Malnutrition - epidemiology; Malnutrition - ethnology; Malnutrition - physiopathology; Marital status; Morbidity; Mothers; Prediction models; Premature birth; Prevalence; Public health; Regression analysis; Respiratory diseases; Sex Characteristics; Social Change; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomics; Spine; Spine - pathology; Stunting; Suburban Health - ethnology; Toddlers; Urban Health - ethnology; Urbanization; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; World Health Organization; Guatemala; Central America; America; Urbanization; Guatemala; Infants; Toddlers; Stunting; Human; Infant

Abstract Objective Guatemala has the highest prevalence of stunting (54% of children under age 5 years) in the Americas and the fifth highest in the world. The aim of this study was to describe the stunting prevalence and the association with early feeding practices, morbidity patterns, and socioeco...