The Department of Endocrinology, 
Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017.
Nature medicine Vol. 26 · Issue 5 · pp. 750-759
PMID 32313249 DOI 10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6
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LBD Collaborators (incl. Thomas N). Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017. Nature medicine. 2020;26(5):750-759. doi: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
Keywords
- Child
- Child
- Preschool
- Demography
- Developing Countries
- Female
- Geographic Mapping
- Humans
- Income
- Infant
- Infant
- Newborn
- Male
- Malnutrition
- Nutritional Status
- Overweight
- Pediatric Obesity
- Poverty
- Prevalence
- Social Class
- Wasting Syndrome
