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Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon

To describe the factors associated to stunting in <5-year-old Yanomami Brazilian children, and to evaluate the association of short maternal stature to their offspring’s stunting. A cross-sectional study carried out in three villages in the Yanomami territory. We performed a census, in which all...

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Autores principales: Orellana, Jesem Douglas Yamall, Gatica-Domínguez, Giovanna, Vaz, Juliana dos Santos, Neves, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro, de Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Santiago, de Souza Hacon, Sandra, Basta, Paulo Cesar
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501720
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179130
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author Orellana, Jesem Douglas Yamall
Gatica-Domínguez, Giovanna
Vaz, Juliana dos Santos
Neves, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro
de Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Santiago
de Souza Hacon, Sandra
Basta, Paulo Cesar
author_facet Orellana, Jesem Douglas Yamall
Gatica-Domínguez, Giovanna
Vaz, Juliana dos Santos
Neves, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro
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description To describe the factors associated to stunting in <5-year-old Yanomami Brazilian children, and to evaluate the association of short maternal stature to their offspring’s stunting. A cross-sectional study carried out in three villages in the Yanomami territory. We performed a census, in which all households with children < 5-years-old were included. The length/height-for-age z-score <−2 standard deviations was used to classify the children as stunted. Short maternal height was defined as <145 cm for adult women, and <−2 standard deviations of the height-for-age z-score for adolescent women. We used adjusted Poisson regression models to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) along the 90% confidence interval. We evaluated 298 children. 81.2% of children suffered from stunting and 71.9% of the mothers from short stature. In the bivariate analysis, a significant association of stunting with short maternal stature, gestational malaria and child’s place of birth were observed. Considering the variables of the children under five years of age, there were significant associations with age group, the child’s caregiver, history of malaria, pneumonia, and malnutrition treatment. In the adjusted hierarchical model, stunting was 1.22 times greater in the offspring of women with a short stature (90% CI: 1.07–1.38) compared to their counterparts. Brazilian Amazonian indigenous children living in a remote area displayed an alarming prevalence of stunting, and this was associated with short maternal height, reinforcing the hypothesis of intergenerational chronic malnutrition transmission in this population. In addition, children above 24 months of age, who were born in the village healthcare units and who had had previous treatment in the past for stunting presented higher rates of stunting in this study.
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spelling pubmed-84309512021-09-11 Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon Orellana, Jesem Douglas Yamall Gatica-Domínguez, Giovanna Vaz, Juliana dos Santos Neves, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro de Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Santiago de Souza Hacon, Sandra Basta, Paulo Cesar Int J Environ Res Public Health Article To describe the factors associated to stunting in <5-year-old Yanomami Brazilian children, and to evaluate the association of short maternal stature to their offspring’s stunting. A cross-sectional study carried out in three villages in the Yanomami territory. We performed a census, in which all households with children < 5-years-old were included. The length/height-for-age z-score <−2 standard deviations was used to classify the children as stunted. Short maternal height was defined as <145 cm for adult women, and <−2 standard deviations of the height-for-age z-score for adolescent women. We used adjusted Poisson regression models to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) along the 90% confidence interval. We evaluated 298 children. 81.2% of children suffered from stunting and 71.9% of the mothers from short stature. In the bivariate analysis, a significant association of stunting with short maternal stature, gestational malaria and child’s place of birth were observed. Considering the variables of the children under five years of age, there were significant associations with age group, the child’s caregiver, history of malaria, pneumonia, and malnutrition treatment. In the adjusted hierarchical model, stunting was 1.22 times greater in the offspring of women with a short stature (90% CI: 1.07–1.38) compared to their counterparts. Brazilian Amazonian indigenous children living in a remote area displayed an alarming prevalence of stunting, and this was associated with short maternal height, reinforcing the hypothesis of intergenerational chronic malnutrition transmission in this population. In addition, children above 24 months of age, who were born in the village healthcare units and who had had previous treatment in the past for stunting presented higher rates of stunting in this study. MDPI 2021-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8430951/ /pubmed/34501720 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179130 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Orellana, Jesem Douglas Yamall
Gatica-Domínguez, Giovanna
Vaz, Juliana dos Santos
Neves, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro
de Vasconcellos, Ana Claudia Santiago
de Souza Hacon, Sandra
Basta, Paulo Cesar
Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon
title Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon
title_full Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon
title_fullStr Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon
title_full_unstemmed Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon
title_short Intergenerational Association of Short Maternal Stature with Stunting in Yanomami Indigenous Children from the Brazilian Amazon
title_sort intergenerational association of short maternal stature with stunting in yanomami indigenous children from the brazilian amazon
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8430951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501720
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179130
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