Birth length is the strongest predictor of linear growth status and stunting in the first 2 years of life after a preconception maternal nutrition intervention: the children of the Women First trial

• Published in: The American journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 86 - 96
• Main Authors: Krebs, Nancy F, Hambidge, K Michael, Westcott, Jamie L, Garcés, Ana L, Figueroa, Lester, Tshefu, Antoinette K, Lokangaka, Adrien L, Goudar, Shivaprasad S, Dhaded, Sangappa M, Saleem, Sarah, Ali, Sumera Aziz, Bauserman, Melissa S, Derman, Richard J, Goldenberg, Robert L, Das, Abhik, Chowdhury, Dhuly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2022; Oxford University Press; American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
• Subjects: Anthropometry; Birth; birth length; breastfeeding; Child; Chronology; Dietary Supplements; Editor's Choice; Female; Gestational Age; growth; Growth Disorders - prevention & control; Human nutrition; Humans; Infant; infant growth; Infant, Newborn; Infants; maternal height; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Nutrition; Original Research Communications; preconception; Pregnancy; stunting; SES; preconception; LAZ; WLZ; DCC; maternal height; GEE; SGA; stunting; SQ-LNS; WF; WAZ; birth length; DRC; LWB; growth; infant growth; breastfeeding; IG; HVRA

The multicountry Women First trial demonstrated that nutritional supplementation initiated prior to conception (arm 1) or early pregnancy (arm 2) and continued until delivery resulted in significantly greater length at birth and 6 mo compared with infants in the control arm (arm 3). We evaluated int...