Open AccessStunting and obesity in childhood: a reassessment using longitudinal data from South Africa
Author(s) -
Ian M. Timæus
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dys026
Subject(s) - obesity , childhood obesity , environmental health , longitudinal data , medicine , longitudinal study , geography , pediatrics , demography , overweight , sociology , pathology
A series of cross-sectional studies have found a relationship between stunting and obesity in childhood. Because height appears in both the numerator of indices of stunting and the denominator of indices of obesity, random errors made by fieldworkers measuring heights can produce negative bias in estimates of this relationship.
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