title: [Study on promotion of improvement regarding the nutritional status in Nakhi children and adolescents of Nakhi ethnicity].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the improvement of nutrition status in children and adolescents of Nakhi ethnicity, in the last 25 years so as to put forward further suggestions for improvement.
  
  
  METHODS
  2 635 Nakhi students aged 7-18 years were selected from the 2010 national survey, with a group of Han students from the rural areas were randomly selected as controls. WHO-2006 reference was used to screen the prevalence of malnutrition, and compared with the control group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence rates in the Nakhi male and female students were 4.9% and 4.7% for stunting, 5.6% and 4.6% for wasting, and 10.5% and 9.3% for total malnutrition, respectively. Changes on secular growth in both Nakhi and Han students in the rural areas were compared and the results showed that the superiority of Nakhi children was the cause for these disparities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nutrition status of the Nakhi children was predicted and an optional future was displayed. Positive factors for causing these superiorities were summarized. Suggestions were also put forward regarding the formulation of balanced diet, improving the skills on preventive-cure, strengthening the local maternal-child healthcare services and the development of education on better bearing and rearing, etc.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China. Email: jichengye@263.net.
authors.forename: Chengye
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ji
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009752:Nutritional Status; D013334:Students