Document Type : Short Communication
Authors
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Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Research Center and Department of Nutrition, School of Paramedical Sciences, Ahvaz Jundi-Shapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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Maternal and Childhood Obesity Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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Department of Pediatrics, Abuzar Hospital, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundi-Shapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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4- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundi-Shapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
10.22122/ajcr.2018.116999.1022
Abstract
Introduction:
Growth faltering, characterizing with inconsistency between current child growths curves with the reference growth curves is first and main sign of malnutrition. Based on UNICEFُs conceptual framework for child malnutrition, food intake is one of the immediate causes to child malnutrition. This survey has studied this relation.
Methods:
This case-control study conducted on 180 Children aged 3-36 months old. Two groups were matched based on the sex. The cases were children whose growth curves were horizontal or downward for at least two recent consecutive months. The controls were children with upward growth curves. Data collection was done by face to face interview, family file at the health centers, child food intake assessing by 24h dietary food recall from his mother.
Results:
%17.8 of Childs that have been recruited in the study was under 6 months old. Exclusive breastfeeding from birth to the study time about them was evaluated. This variable did show any significance between two groups, likely because of small sample size of this subgroup (P=0/157). Supplementary feeding pattern showed significant difference between two groups (P>0/001). There was a significant difference based on the age of supplementary feeding initiation between groups (P>0/001).
Conclusion:
This study revealed that supplementary feeding pattern is effective on child growth differences between these two groups. It can induce and potentate risk of child malnutrition in this age in this state.
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