Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the determinants of overweight and obesity among children under 5 years in Ethiopia. RESULTS: Data from a total of 672 (224 cases and 448 controls) under 5 years of age children were included in the study. Urban residence (AOR = 2.63, 95% CI 1.29,...

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Autores principales: Weldearegay, Haftom Gebrehiwot, Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher, Abrha, Mulugeta Woldu, Mulugeta, Afework
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31672167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4752-8
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the determinants of overweight and obesity among children under 5 years in Ethiopia. RESULTS: Data from a total of 672 (224 cases and 448 controls) under 5 years of age children were included in the study. Urban residence (AOR = 2.63, 95% CI 1.29, 5.34), boys (AOR = 1.56, 95% CI 1.10, 2.22) and age of the child less than 6 months (AOR = 3.40, 95% CI 2.05, 5.64) were the determinants for being childhood overweight and obesity.
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spelling pubmed-68223422019-11-06 Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study Weldearegay, Haftom Gebrehiwot Gebrehiwot, Tesfay Gebregzabher Abrha, Mulugeta Woldu Mulugeta, Afework BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the determinants of overweight and obesity among children under 5 years in Ethiopia. RESULTS: Data from a total of 672 (224 cases and 448 controls) under 5 years of age children were included in the study. Urban residence (AOR = 2.63, 95% CI 1.29, 5.34), boys (AOR = 1.56, 95% CI 1.10, 2.22) and age of the child less than 6 months (AOR = 3.40, 95% CI 2.05, 5.64) were the determinants for being childhood overweight and obesity. BioMed Central 2019-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6822342/ /pubmed/31672167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4752-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
title Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
title_full Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
title_fullStr Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
title_full_unstemmed Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
title_short Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
title_sort overweight and obesity among children under five in ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31672167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4752-8
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