Nutrition and growth. A review.
Growth monitoring is a sensitive tool and an indicator of the nutritional status of a population. The stressors may interfere by delaying maturation (timing effect) or by lowering the growth potential (intensity effect). In the same way, the secular trend is a translation of the past evolution of the environmental factors in a population.
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D001827:Body Height; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009752:Nutritional Status