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Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017
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LBD Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators (Including: Uthman, Olalekan A.). (2020) Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017. Nature Medicine, 26 (5). pp. 750-759. doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6 ISSN 1078-8956.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6
Abstract
A double burden of malnutrition occurs when individuals, household members or communities experience both undernutrition and overweight. Here, we show geospatial estimates of overweight and wasting prevalence among children under 5 years of age in 105 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) from 2000 to 2017 and aggregate these to policy-relevant administrative units. Wasting decreased overall across LMICs between 2000 and 2017, from 8.4% (62.3 (55.1–70.8) million) to 6.4% (58.3 (47.6–70.7) million), but is predicted to remain above the World Health Organization’s Global Nutrition Target of <5% in over half of LMICs by 2025. Prevalence of overweight increased from 5.2% (30 (22.8–38.5) million) in 2000 to 6.0% (55.5 (44.8–67.9) million) children aged under 5 years in 2017. Areas most affected by double burden of malnutrition were located in Indonesia, Thailand, southeastern China, Botswana, Cameroon and central Nigeria. Our estimates provide a new perspective to researchers, policy makers and public health agencies in their efforts to address this global childhood syndemic.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Overweight children , Overweight children -- Developing countries , Malnutrition in children | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Medicine | ||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||
ISSN: | 1078-8956 | ||||||
Official Date: | May 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 750-759 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 June 2020 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 June 2020 | ||||||
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