Nutritional status and linear growth of Indonesian infants in West Java are determined more by prenatal environment than by postnatal factors

From: The Journal of Nutrition | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Schmidt, marjanka K; Muslimatun, Siti; West, Clive E; Schultink, Werner; Et al | Copyright information

Nutritional Status and Linear Growth of Indonesian Infants in West Java Are Determined More by Prenatal Environment than by Postnatal Factors'

ABSTRACT One of the health problems in Indonesia is the high prevalence of stunting in infants. Determinants and specifically the relative contribution of prenatal and postnatal factors to growth and nutritional status of Indonesian infants were investigated. Newborn infants, from women recruited at -18 wk of pregnancy from 9 rural villages in ...

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