Malnutrition associated factors on children under 5 years old in Lhaviyani Atoll,Maldives

作     者：Mariyam Asra Xiaofang Lin Ijaz Ul Haq Asfia Banu Pasha Yingying Shao Rui Qin Manli Hu Ye Ding Zhixu Wang Mariyam Asra;Xiaofang Lin;Ijaz Ul Haq;Asfia Banu Pasha;Yingying Shao;Rui Qin;Manli Hu;Ye Ding;Zhixu Wang

作者机构：Department of MaternalChild and Adolescent HealthSchool of Public HealthNanjing Medical UniversityNanjingJiangsu 211166China Department of Nutrition and Food HygieneSchool of Public HealthNanjing Medical UniversityNanjingJiangsu 211166China Department of Pediatricsthe First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityNanjingJiangsu 210029China 

出 版 物：《The Journal of Biomedical Research》 (生物医学研究杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第34卷第4期

页      面：301-308页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100202[医学-儿科学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Maldives undernutrition stunting 

摘      要：In this report,we aimed to analyze the prevalence of undernutrition and associated factors among children under 5 years of age in Lhaviyani Atoll,Maldives.A total of 800 children(under 5 years old) and their mothers were selected for this *** was collected by using a pretested questionnaire and anthropometric measurements were taken from the hospital record ***-square tests and multivariate logistic regression were used to find the association between nutritional status and *** distribution of height for age and weight for age in surveyed children in Maldives was skewed to the left compared with the WHO *** prevalence of undernutrition based on underweight(10.75%),stunting(13.5%),and wasting(9.60%) was estimated to be 23.85% among *** age,gender and mother’s education were significantly associated with undernutrition(P0.05).Our survey highlighted that better nutritional interventions are needed to improve child health in this region.