Effect of correcting for gestational age at birth on population prevalence of early childhood undernutrition.

Nandita PerumalDaniel E RothJohnna PerdrizetAluísio J D BarrosIná S SantosAlicia MatijasevichDiego G Bassani

Published in: Emerging themes in epidemiology (2018)

Population-based epidemiologic studies in LMICs in which GA is unused or unavailable may overestimate the prevalence of early childhood undernutrition and inflate the fraction of undernutrition attributable to preterm birth.

Keyphrases

gestational age
preterm birth
birth weight
low birth weight
risk factors
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