Low head circumference during early childhood and its predictors in a semi-urban settlement of Vellore, Southern India

Abstract Background Stunting in developing countries continues to be a major public health problem. Measuring head circumference (HC) during clinical anthropometric assessment can help predict stunting. The aim of this study was to assess burden and determine the predictors of low HC (<− 2 SD) at...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, Prashanth Ramamurthy, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Ankita Henry, Joseph Dian Bondu, Sushil Mathew John, Sudhir Babji, Beena Koshy, Anuradha Bose, Gagandeep Kang, Venkata Raghava Mohan
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: BMC 2019-06-01
Serie:BMC Pediatrics
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Head circumference measurement
Maternal head circumference
Paternal head circumference
Growth
Nutrition
India
Länkar:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12887-019-1553-0
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