In utero Ramadan exposure and child nutrition.

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.1017/S204017442200037X

Hoi Chu, Srinivas Goli, Anu Rammohan

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Abstract

In this study, we empirically analyse whether in utero exposure to the Ramadan fasting period is negatively associated with child nutrition. The data for the analyses come from a retrospective assessment of 759,799 children from 103 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 56 countries during 2003-2020. Considering the month-long Ramadan exposure as a natural experiment, we implement an intent-to-treat framework, comparing stunting and underweight among children aged 0-5 years who were exposed to Ramadan fasting at any time in utero with those who were not exposed. Our findings do not show significant evidence to conclude that in utero exposure to the Ramadan fasting period is negatively associated with child nutrition. On the contrary, except for stunting in Muslim children who had in utero exposure to Ramadan fasting during the first months of pregnancy, we find no significant association between in utero exposure to Ramadan fasting and child stunting and underweight. Our main results are robust to multiple robustness checks.

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子宫内斋月暴露与儿童营养。

在本研究中，我们实证分析了子宫内暴露于斋月禁食期是否与儿童营养负相关。用于分析的数据来自2003-2020年期间对56个国家103项人口与健康调查(DHS)中759,799名儿童的回顾性评估。考虑到长达一个月的斋月暴露是一个自然实验，我们实施了一个意向治疗框架，比较0-5岁儿童在子宫内任何时候暴露于斋月禁食与未暴露于斋月禁食的儿童的发育迟缓和体重不足。我们的研究结果并没有显示出显著的证据来得出结论，即子宫内暴露于斋月禁食期间与儿童营养负相关。相反，除了在怀孕头几个月子宫内接触斋月禁食的穆斯林儿童发育迟缓外，我们发现子宫内接触斋月禁食与儿童发育迟缓和体重不足之间没有显着关联。我们的主要结果对多个稳健性检查是稳健性的。

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Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

0.00%

发文量

145

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： JDOHaD publishes leading research in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). The Journal focuses on the environment during early pre-natal and post-natal animal and human development, interactions between environmental and genetic factors, including environmental toxicants, and their influence on health and disease risk throughout the lifespan. JDOHaD publishes work on developmental programming, fetal and neonatal biology and physiology, early life nutrition, especially during the first 1,000 days of life, human ecology and evolution and Gene-Environment Interactions. JDOHaD also accepts manuscripts that address the social determinants or education of health and disease risk as they relate to the early life period, as well as the economic and health care costs of a poor start to life. Accordingly, JDOHaD is multi-disciplinary, with contributions from basic scientists working in the fields of physiology, biochemistry and nutrition, endocrinology and metabolism, developmental biology, molecular biology/ epigenetics, human biology/ anthropology, and evolutionary developmental biology. Moreover clinicians, nutritionists, epidemiologists, social scientists, economists, public health specialists and policy makers are very welcome to submit manuscripts. The journal includes original research articles, short communications and reviews, and has regular themed issues, with guest editors; it is also a platform for conference/workshop reports, and for opinion, comment and interaction.