title: [Malnutrition and cognitive development if infants in rural marginalized areas in Mexico].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the relationship between nutritional status measured by anthropometry and the mental, psychomotor and language development of infants in marginalized rural areas of Mexico.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study with 576 infants aged from 7 to 26 months in four rural locations. Variables consisted of measures of anthropometric and cognitive development.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Infants with short stature had a lower rate of language development, while birth weight was marginally associated with psychomotor development.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although acute malnutrition (identified by underweight) is no longer a problem in rural areas of Mexico, chronic malnutrition (expressed as stunting) is still common and is associated with alterations in mental development in the child population.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición Aplicada y Educación Nutricional, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, D.F., México. Electronic address: carrascoquin@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: María Del Refugio
authors.initials: Mdel R
authors.lastname: Carrasco Quintero
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco, México, D.F., México.
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ortiz Hernández
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición Aplicada y Educación Nutricional, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, D.F., México.
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Roldán Amaro
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrición Aplicada y Educación Nutricional, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, D.F., México.
authors.forename: Adolfo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chávez Villasana
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000150:complications*; D008800:Mexico; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012424:Rural Population
keywords: Baja estatura; Desarrollo; Desnutrición; Development; Infant; Infante; Language; Lenguaje; Malnutrition; Short stature