title: Is Bangladesh going through an epidemiological and nutritional transition?
abstract: Bangladesh is going through an epidemiological transition with large reductions in mortality due to acute, infectious, and parasitic diseases and increases in non-communicable, degenerative, and chronic diseases over the last 20 years. There is also evidence of an adult nutritional transition with increases in pre-obesity and obesity particularly in urban areas. However a high percentage of the population of Bangladesh remain undernourished and economically poor and ultra-poor development programmes indicate that improving their nutritional status might not be achievable as a bi-product of the development programme. Bangladesh like many developing countries has many burdens of under and over-nutrition, high levels of infectious diseases as well as growing levels of non-communicable diseases.
authors: Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. nmt1@cam.ac.uk
authors: Nicholas
authors: N
authors: Mascie-Taylor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000208:ethnology*; D009026:Mortality / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000639:trends; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009765:Obesity / Q000208:ethnology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends