Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Revisiting Implications for Interventions

Gomes Victora, Cesar; de Onis, Mercedes; Curi Hallal, Pedro; Blössner, Monika; Shrimpton, Roger

doi:10.1542/peds.2009-1519

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Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Revisiting Implications for Interventions

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Cesar Gomes Victora

Mercedes de Onis

Pedro Curi Hallal

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to describe worldwide growth-faltering patterns by using the new World Health Organization (WHO) standards. METHODS: We analyzed information available from the WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, comprising data from national anthropometric surveys from 54 c...

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