Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status and growth of children in Democratic Yemen.
A cross-sectional study of 600 school children aged 7-13 years of both sexes was carried out in Aden city, Democratic yemen. Body weight, body height, mid-arm circumference and triceps skinfold thickness of left side were measured for each child. The results showed that the weights, heights, mid-arm circumference and triceps skinfold thickness are almost linear with increasing age among the studied group. Generally, girls showed significantly higher values of all studied anthropometric measurements than boys above 11 years. Following the approach of waterlow classification, the percentages of wasting, underweight, stunting and concurrent wasting and stunting were found to be 8.9%, 25.8%, 22.2% and 2.9% respectively.
Haithami
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Gabal
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Masher
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el-Nofely
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D000886:Anthropometry; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012494:Sampling Studies; D015006:Yemen