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Monthly measurement of child lengths between 6 and 27 months of age in Burkina Faso reveals both chronic and episodic growth faltering

BACKGROUND: Linear growth faltering is determined primarily by attained heights in infancy, but available data consist mainly of cross-sectional heights at each age. OBJECTIVES: This study used longitudinal data to test whether faltering occurs episodically in a few months of very low growth, which...

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Autores principales: Cliffer, Ilana R, Masters, William A, Perumal, Nandita, Naumova, Elena N, Zeba, Augustin N, Garanet, Franck, Rogers, Beatrice L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8755055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34637506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab309