Growth disturbance in an urban area of Lahore, Pakistan related to feeding patterns, infections and age, sex, socio-economic factors and seasons.
Infantile growth in 910 longitudinally-followed infants in a poor urban population of Lahore, Pakistan was followed from birth to two years of age and correlated to various socio-economic variables, infections, and feeding-practices. Attained body size was correlated with the number of episodes of diarrhoea and with family educational level and also, to some extent, with housing standards. The influence of environmental factors on growth was greatest during the hot and warm seasons, for children at an age of 6-9 months and in this culture especially for girls. Children living under the same conditions showed great individual variations in resistance to environmental factors as measured by growth parameters.
Jalil
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Department of Social & Preventive Paediatrics, King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.
Karlberg
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Hanson
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Lindblad
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D000367:Age Factors; D003906:Developing Countries; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000150:complications*; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010154:Pakistan; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000150:complications*; D012621:Seasons; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population