Effect of correcting for gestational age at birth on population prevalence of early childhood undernutrition

BACKGROUND: Postmenstrual and/or gestational age-corrected age (CA) is required to apply child growth standards to children born preterm (< 37 weeks gestational age). Yet, CA is rarely used in epidemiologic studies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which may bias population estimates o...

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Autores principales: Perumal, Nandita, Roth, Daniel E., Perdrizet, Johnna, Barros, Aluísio J. D., Santos, Iná S., Matijasevich, Alicia, Bassani, Diego G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29441118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12982-018-0070-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29441118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12982-018-0070-1

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