Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting
Andrew M. Prentice,Kate A Ward,Gail R. Goldberg,Landing M. A. Jarjou,Sophie E. Moore,Anthony J. C. Fulford,Ann Prentice +6 more
TLDR
It is argued that adolescence represents an additional window of opportunity during which substantial life cycle and intergenerational effects can be accrued and the growing impression that interventions outside of this period cannot be effective is countered.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2013-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 368 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Window of opportunity & Population.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
Robert E. Black,Cesar G. Victora,Susan P. Walker,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Parul Christian,Mercedes de Onis,Majid Ezzati,Sally Grantham-McGregor,Sally Grantham-McGregor,Joanne Katz,Reynaldo Martorell,Ricardo Uauy +11 more
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing
George C Patton,George C Patton,Susan M Sawyer,Susan M Sawyer,Susan M Sawyer,John S. Santelli,David Ross,David Ross,Rima Afifi,Nicholas B. Allen,Nicholas B. Allen,Monika Arora,Peter Azzopardi,Peter Azzopardi,Wendy Baldwin,Chris Bonell,Ritsuko Kakuma,Elissa Kennedy,Jaqueline Mahon,Terry McGovern,Ali H. Mokdad,Vikram Patel,Vikram Patel,Suzanne Petroni,Nicola J. Reavley,Kikelomo Taiwo,Jane Waldfogel,Dakshitha Wickremarathne,Carmen Barroso,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Adesegun O. Fatusi,Amitabh Mattoo,Amitabh Mattoo,Judith Diers,Jing Fang,Jane Ferguson,Fred M. Ssewamala,Russell M Viner +38 more
TL;DR: This Commission outlines the opportunities and challenges for investment in adolescent health and wellbeing at both country and global levels (panel 1).
Journal ArticleDOI
Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children
Sathish Subramanian,Sayeeda Huq,Tanya Yatsunenko,Rashidul Haque,Mustafa Mahfuz,Mohammed Ashraful Alam,Amber Benezra,Amber Benezra,Joseph DeStefano,Martin Meier,Brian D. Muegge,Michael J. Barratt,Laura G. VanArendonk,Qunyuan Zhang,Michael A. Province,William A. Petri,Tahmeed Ahmed,Jeffrey I. Gordon +17 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that SAM is associated with significant relative microbiota immaturity that is only partially ameliorated following two widely used nutritional interventions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Childhood stunting: a global perspective.
TL;DR: It is shown that stunting is the best overall indicator of children's well‐being and an accurate reflection of social inequalities and the challenge is to prevent linear growth failure while keeping child overweight and obesity at bay.
Journal ArticleDOI
The stunting syndrome in developing countries
TL;DR: The mechanisms underlying linear growth failure at different ages are described, the short-, medium- and long-term consequences of stunting are discussed, and the evidence for windows of opportunity during the life cycle to target interventions at the stunting syndrome are evaluated.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
A life course approach to diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases.
TL;DR: Prevention will be the most cost-effective and feasible approach for many countries and should involve three mutually reinforcing strategies throughout life, starting in the antenatal period.
Journal ArticleDOI
WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age
TL;DR: The Box‐Cox power exponential (BCPE) method, with curve smoothing by cubic splines, was used to construct the curves and the concordance between smoothed percentile curves and empirical percentiles was excellent and free of bias.
Journal ArticleDOI
Prevention of neural tube defects: Results of the Medical Research Council vitamin study
TL;DR: An unexplained elevated level of maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein in the second trimester of pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of subsequent fetal death, up to four to five months after alphafetoprotein screening.
Journal ArticleDOI
The timing of normal puberty and the age limits of sexual precocity: variations around the world, secular trends, and changes after migration
Anne-Simone Parent,Grete Teilmann,Anders Juul,Niels E. Skakkebæk,Jorma Toppari,Jean-Pierre Bourguignon +5 more
TL;DR: These observations urge further study of the onset of puberty as a possible sensitive and early marker of the interactions between environmental conditions and genetic susceptibility that can influence physiological and pathological processes.
Journal ArticleDOI
Cross sectional stature and weight reference curves for the UK, 1990.
TL;DR: Using current data from seven sources new reference curves have been estimated from birth to 20 years for children in 1990 and it is proposed that the curves presented here should be adopted as the new UK reference curves.