Browsing BracU Faculty Publications by Subject "Underweight"

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    • Childhood malnutrition in households with contemporary siblings: a scenario from urban Bangladesh 

      Das, Jui; Kumar Das, Sumon; Hasan, T; Syed Golam Faruque, Abu; Ahmed, Salma; Ferdous, Farzana; Begum, R; Jobayer Chisti, Mohammod; Malek, M A; Mamun, Abdullah (© 2015 Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
      This study aimed to determine the effect of the presence of under-5 siblings (≥1) in a household on childhood malnutrition in urban Bangladesh. During 2000 and 2013, a total of 16 948 under-5 children were enrolled in the ...

    • Determinants of age-specific undernutrition in children aged less than 2 years—the Bangladesh context 

      Choudhury, Nuzhat; Raihan, Mohammad Jyoti; Sultana, Sabiha; Mahmud, Zeba; Farzana, Fahmida Dil; Haque, Md Ahshanul; Rahman, Ahmed Shafiqur; Waid, Jillian L.; Chowdhury, Atique Mushtaque Raza; Black, Robert E.E.; Ahmed, Tahmeed J. (© 2017 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2017-07)
      Globally, undernutrition affects nearly half of all children aged less than 5 years. It is more prominent in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the age-specific risk factors for different ...