title: Are stunted young Indonesian children more likely to be overweight, thin, or have high blood pressure in adolescence?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether stunted young children are at greater risk of (1) overweight/obesity or thinness, and (2) high blood pressure (HBP) in adolescence.
  
  
  METHODS
  A secondary data analysis using the Indonesian Family Life Survey waves 1 (1993) to 4 (2007). We generated a 14-year follow-up cohort (1993-2007) and two 7-year cohorts (1993-2000 and 2000-2007) of children aged 2.0-4.9 years. Stunting (HAZ < -2), thinness (BMIZ < -2), and overweight/obesity (BMIZ > +1) were determined based upon the WHO Child Growth Standards. HBP (>90th percentile) was interpreted using the 4th Report on the Diagnosis of HBP in Children and Adolescents.
  
  
  RESULTS
  765, 1083, and 1589 children were included in the 14-year cohort, and the two 7-year cohort analyses, respectively. In the 7-year cohorts, early life stunting was inversely associated with overweight/obesity (prevalence ratio 0.32 and 0.38, respectively; P < 0.05), but no significant association was found with the 14-year cohort. There was no significant association between childhood stunting and thinness at adolescence or in the odds/likelihood of having high systolic or diastolic blood pressure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We found no association between early life stunting and overweight/obesity, thinness and HBP in adolescence.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead (University of Sydney Clinical School), Sydney, Australia. Crac8243@uni.sydney.edu.au.
authors.forename: Cut Novianti
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Rachmi
authors.affiliation: School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Kingsley Emwinyore
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Agho
authors.affiliation: Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Mu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead (University of Sydney Clinical School), Sydney, Australia.|Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Louise Alison
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Baur
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D007214:Indonesia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009752:Nutritional Status; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D013851:Thinness; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Children; Cohorts; Double burden; Indonesia; Overweight/obesity; Stunting