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Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms

Corinna Hawkes, +4 more
- 11 Jan 2020 - 
- Vol. 395, Iss: 10218, pp 142-155
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It is found that undernutrition, obesity, and DR-NCDs are intrinsically linked through early-life nutrition, diet diversity, food environments, and socioeconomic factors.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2020-01-11 and is currently open access. It has received 216 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Malnutrition.

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Dynamics of the double burden of malnutrition and the changing nutrition reality.

Barry M. Popkin, +2 more
- 04 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: Understanding that the lowest income LMICs face severe levels of the DBM and that the major direct cause is rapid increases in overweight allows identifying selected crucial drivers and possible options for addressing the D BM at all levels.
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The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health.

Jonathan C. K. Wells, +7 more
- 04 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: Mitigation of the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) will require major societal shifts regarding nutrition and public health, to implement comprehensive change that is sustained over decades, and scaled up into the entire global food system.
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, +1361 more
- 07 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.
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Effective interventions to address maternal and child malnutrition: An update of the evidence

Emily C Keats, +6 more
- 01 May 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence on the effectiveness of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation in reducing the risk of stillbirths, low birthweight, and babies born small-for-gestational age.
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The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate maternal and child undernutrition and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries

Saskia J. M. Osendarp, +13 more
TL;DR: Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on maternal and child nutrition outcomes, and productivity losses due to childhood stunting and mortality, in 118 low- and middle-income countries are projected under optimistic, moderate and pessimistic scenarios.
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The double burden of malnutrition is observed within communities, households and individuals this paper, which includes the coexistence of nutritional deficiencies and overweight or obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases.