Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income.pdfVIP

Series Maternal and Child Nutrition 1 Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries Robert E Black, Cesar G Victora, Susan P Walker, Zulfi qar A Bhutta*, Parul Christian *, Mercedes de Onis *, Majid Ezzati *, Sally Grantham-McGregor*, Joanne Katz *, Reynaldo Martorell *, Ricardo Uauy *, and the Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group † Maternal and child malnutrition in low-income and middle-income countries encompasses both under nutrition and Published Online a growing problem with overweight and obesity. Low body-mass index, indicative of maternal undernutrition, has June 6, 2013 declined somewhat in the past two decades but continues to be prevalent in Asia and Africa. Prevalence of maternal /10.1016/ S0140-6736(13)60937-X overweight has had a steady increase since 1980 and exceeds that of underweight in all regions. Prevalence of stunting This is the fi rst in a Series of of linear growth of children younger than 5 years has decreased during the past two decades, but is higher in south four papers about maternal and Asia and sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere and globally aff ected at least 165 million children in 2011; wasting child nutrition aff ected at least 52 million children. Defi ciencies of vitamin A and zi