Christopher Paciorek, Gretchen A Stevens, Mariel M. Finucane, Majid Ezzati
BACKGROUND: Urban living affects children's nutrition and growth, which are determinants of their survival, cognitive development, and lifelong health. Little is known about urban-rural differences in children's height and weight, and how these differences have changed over time. We aimed to investi...
Nurul Alam, Roy Sk, Tahmeed Ahmed, AM Shamsir Ahmed
This study estimated the levels and differentials in nutritional status and dietary intake and relevant knowledge of adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh using data from the Baseline Survey 2004 of the National Nutrition Programme. A stratified two-stage random cluster-sampling was used for selectin...
Nazia Binte Ali, Tazeen Tahsina, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan et al.
INTRODUCTION: Dietary diversity score (DDS) is a proxy indicator for measuring nutrient adequacy. In this study, we aimed to identify the nutritional statuses and current patterns of DDS among children between 6-59 months old and their associations with different individual and household level facto...
Joel Kimmons, Kathryn G. Dewey, Emdadul Haque, J. Chakraborty et al.
We assessed the adequacy of nutrient intakes of 135 rural Bangladeshi breast-fed infants 6-12 mo of age and examined nutritional trade-offs due to possible displacement of breast milk by complementary foods. Observers completed 12-h daytime measurements of breast milk and complementary food intakes;...
P.R. Fischer
To understand nutritional rickets in Bangladesh better, 14 rachitic and 13 'unaffected' children were evaluated. Seventy per cent of children with active rickets had no evidence of either vitamin D deficiency or familial rickets. Rickets in Bangladesh is probably related to calcium deficiency. Abnor...
Sidong Li, Scott A. Lear, Sumathy Rangarajan, Bo Hu et al.
Importance: High amounts of sitting time are associated with increased risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality in high-income countries, but it is unknown whether risks also increase in low- and middle-income countries. Objective: To investigate the association of sitting time with morta...
Ian Janssen, Robert Ross
BACKGROUND: Current physical activity guidelines imply that, by comparison with moderate physical activity (MPA), the benefits of engaging in vigorous physical activity (VPA) are attributed to the greater energy expenditure dose per unit of time and do not relate to intensity per se. The purpose of ...
KH Brown, Robert E. Black, Stan Becker, Aminul Hoque
Longitudinal field studies of the physical growth of 197 children between 6 and 60 months of age have been completed in two rural villages of Bangladesh. The distribution of weights by age indicated that 90% of the village girls and boyd weighed less than the National Center for Health Statistics 5t...
Yvonne Kelly, Afshin Zilanawala, Amanda Sacker, Robert A. Hiatt et al.
OBJECTIVE: Early puberty in girls is linked to some adverse outcomes in adolescence and mid-life. We address two research questions: (1) Are socioeconomic circumstances and ethnicity associated with early onset puberty? (2) Are adiposity and/or psychosocial stress associated with observed associatio...
J. W. G. Yarnell, Christopher C Patterson, Hugh F Thomas, Peter M Sweetnam
OBJECTIVE: The prevalence of obesity is increasing in many European countries and in the United States. This report examines the mortality and morbidity associated with being overweight and obese in the Caerphilly Prospective Study and the relative effects of weight in middle age and self reported w...
Faruk Ahmed, Momtaz Zareen, Moududur Rahman Khan, C. Banu et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the dietary pattern and nutritional status of adolescent girls attending schools in Dhaka city and to examine the association with various social factors. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Girls high schools in Dhaka city. SUBJECTS: A total of 384 girls, aged from 10 ...
Kuntal Kumar Saha, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Although household food security (HHFS) has been shown to affect diet, nutrition, and health of adults and also learning in children, no study has examined associations with infant feeding practices (IFP). We studied 1343 infants born between May 2002 and December 2003 in the Maternal and Infant Nut...
MA Sayeed, Hajera Mahtab, ZA Latif, P A Khanam et al.
Body mass index (BMI, kg/m.sq) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are widely used as obesity indices for diabetes and cardiovascular risks. Lower adult height was related to diabetes and stroke. Waist-girth was proved important for visceral obesity. Incorporating waist-girth and height as waist-to-height ...
Ghose Bishwajit
BACKGROUND: In South Asia, women were reported to be more likely to have higher normal body weight. However, nationally representative evidence on the association between socioeconomic status and body weight in terms of regional cut-offs for body mass index is limited for South Asian women. This stu...
JS Thakur, Renu Garg, JP Narain, Nata Menabde
Tobacco use is a serious public health problem in the South East Asia Region where use of both smoking and smokeless form of tobacco is widely prevalent. The region has almost one quarter of the global population and about one quarter of all smokers in the world. Smoking among men is high in the Reg...