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Correcting for artifactual correlation between misreported month of birth and attained height-for-age reduces but does not eliminate measured vulnerability to season of birth in poorer countries

BACKGROUND: Height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) are associated with month of birth (MOB) in many nutrition surveys, but that link could be an artifactual result of measurement error in child birthdates. OBJECTIVE: We corrected estimates of the associations between HAZ and MOB for a common type of age misr...

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Autores principales: Finaret, Amelia B, Masters, William A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6669063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31179496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqz111