Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9600
ISSN: 2155-9600
Ricardo Sibrián
Regional Programme of Information Systems on Food and Nutrition Security (PRESISAN),
San Salvador
El Salvador
Research Article
Classification of Dual Burden of Malnutrition in Young Children
Author(s): Ricardo Sibrián and Patricia Palma de FulladolsaRicardo Sibrián and Patricia Palma de Fulladolsa
Introduction: Available classifications and indices for assessment of malnutrition are limited to deficiencies. Societies with transitional nutrition have children suffering not only deficiencies, but also excess or both (dual burden). This paper proposes a classification of nutritional status for identifying normal and failure conditions due to deficiency, excess and dual burden as well as of their components.
Methods: One nutritional condition was considered normal and 12 malnutrition conditions were used for the proposed Malnutrition Anthropometric Index (MAI) as the summation of malnutrition conditions shares and comprising sub-indices of deficiencies (MAD), of excess (MAE) or dual burden (MADB). These indices and 95% CI for comparisons were computed utilizing data from 426 children from six to 59 months of age derived f.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-9600.1000532