Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Natalie Valpiani, Kai Sun, Richard D. Semba et al.
In Bangladesh, rice prices are known to be positively associated with the prevalence of child underweight and inversely associated with household nongrain food expenditures, an indicator of dietary quality. The collection of reliable data on household expenditures is relatively time consuming and re...
Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Joachim von Braun, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Akhter Ahmed
Ashley A. Campbell, Saskia de Pee, Kai Sun, Klaus Kraemer et al.
In Bangladesh, poor rural families often deal with high food costs by purchasing primarily rice. Our objective was to characterize the relationship between household expenditure on rice and nonrice foods with maternal and child malnutrition. Food expenditure data and anthropometry were obtained in a...
Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Saijuddin Shaikh, Sucheta Mehra, Lee Wu et al.
Little is known of the usual food intakes of rural adolescents in South Asia. This study describes dietary patterns, based on >91,000 7-day food frequencies among 30,702 girls and boys, aged 9-15 years in rural northwest Bangladesh. Three intake assessments per child, taken across a calendar year, w...
Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Natalie Valpiani, Rumana Akter, M. Baten et al.
BACKGROUND: Fish is a widely available animal-source food in Bangladesh and a rich source of nutrients, yet little is known about practices related to incorporating fish into the diets of infants and young children. OBJECTIVE: Use dietary diversity data to explore consumption patterns of fish and hi...
Alexandra L. Bellows, Amanda Palmer, Frank C. Curriero, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman et al.
The nutrition transition underway in South Asia is likely mediated by changes to the food environment. Yet, few studies have been conducted in rural areas of South Asia to describe how the food environment has changed. This analysis assessed changes in household availability of and proximity to mark...
Nazrana Khaled, Anna Kalbarczyk, Eleonor Zavala, Atiya Rahman et al.
Balanced energy protein supplementation (BEP) is recommended for contexts of high maternal undernutrition by the World Health Organization. Despite recent improvements in undernutrition, Bangladesh remains a context where BEP could help accelerate progress towards nutrition goals. In preparation for...
Hannah Tong, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Amanda Palmer, Saijuddin Shaikh et al.
BACKGROUND: Early and exclusive breastfeeding may reduce neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in low-resource settings. However, prelacteal feeding (PLF), the practice of giving food or liquid before breastfeeding is established, is still a barrier to optimal breastfeeding practices in many South As...
Eleonor Zavala, Diwakar Mohan, Hasmot Ali, Towfida Jahan Siddiqua et al.
Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends balanced energy and protein (BEP) supplementation be provided to all pregnant women living in undernourished populations, usually defined as having a prevalence > 20% of underweight women, to reduce the risk of stillbirths and sma...
Sonia Zaharia, William A. Masters, Shibani Ghosh, Gerald Shively et al.
People in fragile environments face various shocks that negatively affect their nutrition. Many governments put policy mechanisms in place to promote recovery of households after adverse shocks; however, resilience is difficult to measure because some apparent recovery could be the result of statist...
Anna Kalbarczyk, Mary de Boer, Nazrana Khaled, Barnali Chakraborty et al.
Balanced energy protein (BEP) supplementation is an efficacious intervention in pregnancy for improving birthweight and is recommended by World Health Organization (WHO) in countries with high maternal undernutrition. Few countries have implemented BEP programmes due in part to high cost, lack of da...
Eleonor Zavala, Atiya Rahman, Anna Kalbarczyk, Mary de Boer et al.
Balanced energy protein (BEP) supplementation in pregnancy is recommended in the context of undernutrition for the reduction of small-for-gestational age neonates and stillbirths. To inform an effectiveness trial, we evaluated the acceptability of a packaged, ready-to-eat fortified BEP product among...
Andrew Thorne‐Lyman
Jinhee Hur, Kerry Schulze, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Lee Wu et al.
This study aimed to describe the timing and patterns of pubertal maturation of girls living in rural Bangladesh. Starting in September 2015, a total of 15,320 girls from a birth cohort, aged 9 to 15 years at initial encounter, were visited twice at about a one year interval, typically in their birth...
Alexandra L. Bellows, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Saijuddin Shaikh, Md Tanvir Islam et al.
Background: The food environment is a driver of the double burden of malnutrition, influencing dietary intake by increasing or restricting access to foods. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the association between geospatial food environment indicators and the diet quality among ...