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Reynaldo Martorell

Researcher at Emory University

Publications -  496
Citations -  66028

Reynaldo Martorell is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 88, co-authored 479 publications receiving 57256 citations. Previous affiliations of Reynaldo Martorell include Johns Hopkins University & University of California, San Francisco.

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Anthropometric standardization reference manual

T. J. Lohman, +2 more
- 01 Aug 1992 - 
TL;DR: This abridged version of the "Anthropometric Standardisation Reference Manual" contains the heart of the original manual - complete procedures for 45 anthropometric measurements.
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Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

Robert E. Black, +11 more
- 03 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is estimated that undernutrition in the aggregate--including fetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc along with suboptimum breastfeeding--is a cause of 3·1 million child deaths annually or 45% of all child deaths in 2011.
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Mariachiara Di Cesare, +741 more
- 02 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: The posterior probability of meeting the target of halting by 2025 the rise in obesity at its 2010 levels, if post-2000 trends continue, is calculated.
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Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.

Cesar G. Victora, +6 more
- 26 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that damage suffered in early life leads to permanent impairment, and might also affect future generations, as undernutrition is associated with lower human capital and its prevention will probably bring about important health, educational, and economic benefits.