Early childhood growth and nutritional status in India: trends in five National Family Health Surveys spanning 1992 and 2021.

IF 3.6 3区医学 Q2 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI:10.1038/s41430-025-01568-3

Ramendra Nath Kundu, Grażyna Liczbińska, Rajesh K Gautam, Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati, Robert M Malina

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Abstract

Background/objective: To evaluate the weight and height status of under-five children between 1992 and 2021 in relation to nutritional context.

Subjects/methods: The study is based on the lengths/heights and weights of children <5 years in five national surveys (n = 505,026). After evaluating normality of the distributions, heights, and weights were expressed as z-scores relative to the WHO reference. Nonparametric tests were used as the heights and weights did not have normal distributions.

Results: Heights and weights of boys and girls increased systematically, on average, across the five national surveys, indicating improvement in nutritional status over time. Nevertheless, median z-scores for height and weight relative to the WHO reference indicated the persistence of relatively poor nutritional status across the surveys.

Conclusions: The growth status of Indian children <5 years improved over three decades, indicating that national initiatives promoting child health had a positive impact. Unfortunately, the nutritional status of significant numbers of children has not sufficiently improved and merits further attention.

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背景/目标评估 1992 年至 2021 年期间五岁以下儿童体重和身高状况与营养状况的关系：研究基于儿童的身长/身高和体重：在五次全国性调查中，男童和女童的身高和体重平均都有系统性增长，这表明营养状况随着时间的推移有所改善。然而，与世界卫生组织参考值相比，身高和体重的 z 值中位数表明，营养状况相对较差的情况在各次调查中持续存在：印度儿童的生长状况

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European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 医学-营养学

CiteScore

10.60

自引率

2.10%

发文量

189

审稿时长

3-6 weeks

期刊介绍： The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (EJCN) is an international, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of human and clinical nutrition. The journal welcomes original research, reviews, case reports and brief communications based on clinical, metabolic and epidemiological studies that describe methodologies, mechanisms, associations and benefits of nutritional interventions for clinical disease and health promotion. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Nutrition and Health (including climate and ecological aspects) Metabolism & Metabolomics Genomics and personalized strategies in nutrition Nutrition during the early life cycle Health issues and nutrition in the elderly Phenotyping in clinical nutrition Nutrition in acute and chronic diseases The double burden of ''malnutrition'': Under-nutrition and Obesity Prevention of Non Communicable Diseases (NCD)