Richard D. Semba, Saskia de Pee, Kai Sun, Mayang Sari et al.
Background Child stunting is associated with poor child development and increased mortality. Our aim was to determine the effect of length of maternal and paternal education on stunting in children under the age of 5 years. Methods Data for indicators of child growth and of parental education and so...
Jee Hyun Rah, Nasima Akhter, Richard D. Semba, Saskia de Pee et al.
Background/objectives Dietary diversity is associated with overall quality and nutrient adequacy of the diet in low-income countries. We determined the association between dietary diversity and stunting among children aged 6-59 months in rural Bangladesh. Subjects/methods In total, 165 111 under-fiv...
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...
Sohana Shafique, Nasima Akhter, Gudrun Stallkamp, Saskia de Pee et al.
BACKGROUND: Although undernutrition and communicable diseases dominate the current disease burden in resource-poor countries, the prevalence of diet related chronic diseases is increasing. This paper explores current trends of under- and overweight in Bangladeshi women. METHOD: Nationally representa...
Vanessa M. Oddo, Jee Hyun Rah, Richard D. Semba, Kai Sun et al.
Background Many developing countries now face the double burden of malnutrition, defined as the coexistence of a stunted child and overweight mother within the same household. Objective This study sought to estimate the prevalence of the double burden of malnutrition and to identify associated mater...
Marcelo Takahiro Mitui, Seyed Masoud Tabib, Takashi Matsumoto, Wahida Khanam et al.
We report 4 children with encephalitis associated with human bocavirus (HBoV) 1 or 2. All children were severely underweight, and 2 died; 1 of them had a matching HBoV2 nucleotide sequence isolated from serum and bocavirus like particles in the cerebrospinal fluid that were observed with electron mi...
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...
Syeda Rezwana Akhter, Ratan Sarkar, Mitul Dutta, Roxana Khanom et al.
Richard D. Semba, Saskia de Pee, Kai Sun, Nasima Akhter et al.
Vitamin A supplementation reduces child morbidity, mortality, and blindness. The coverage of the national vitamin A programme and risk factors for not receiving vitamin A were characterized using data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2004. Of 3,745 children aged 18-59 months, 3,237 ...
Vanessa Lee, Faruk Ahmed, Shoko Wada, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh, and examine the relationship between various factors and vitamin A status. SETTING: Community Nutrition Promoter (CNP) centres in Kapasia sub-district of Gazipur district, Bangladesh. DES...
Nasima Akhtar, MAM Sarker, Hasina Akhter, M Katrun Nada
An experiment was conducted to find out the effect of essential oil percentage content and morphogenesis of Mentha piperita with foliar treatment of different concentration of zinc solution (1ppm, 1.5ppm, 2ppm, 2.5ppm, 3ppm and 3.5ppm as zinc chloride). An experiment was set up in earthen wear pots ...
Rumana Akter, Hiroaki Sugino, Nasima Akhter, Christopher L. Brown et al.
Micronutrient deficiencies remain a serious nutritional concern in Bangladesh, especially among rural women of reproductive age (WRA). This study assesses the diet quality of reproductive-aged adolescent girls and adult women (referred to together as WRA in this study), including socio-demographic f...
Nasima Akhter, Khurshida Begum, Papreen Nahar, Gail Cooper et al.
BACKGROUND: Obesity is a global burden, which significantly increases the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom are obese, but prevalence varies by ethnicity, and South Asians have the largest burden of NCDs. This paper assesses how sex, genera...
Ayesha Yasmin, Nasima Janan, Rezina Akhter
Background: Visual impairment due to colour blindness is an unusual suffering of the school children. It may be associated with erythrocyte G6PD enzyme deficiency. Objective: To find out defective vision due to colour blindness in apparently healthy school children and to measure erythrocyte G6PD en...
Acherjya Gk, Mohammad Ali, Keya Tarafder, Nasima Akhter et al.
Globally Vitamin D deficiency is a burning issue for the last two decades. Though the very high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D is worldwide even in the South-East Asia but there is very limited data in Bangladesh. This observational study was designed to assess the status of Vitamin D deficiency am...