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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1989 35(5):237-240; doi:10.1093/tropej/35.5.237
© 1989 by Oxford University Press
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Indian Preschool Children—A Profile of Stunting and Wasting

J. Gowrinath Sastry, K. Vijayaraghavan and N. Pralhad Rao

National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research Hyderabad—500 007, India

Correspondence: J. Gowrinath Sastry, Division of Field Studies, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad—500 007, India.

Anthropometric data collected on 18938 preschool children (1–5 years) by the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) in 10 states of the country were analysed for assessing growth status in terms of ‘stunting’ and ‘wasting’. The results showed that the prevalence of stunting, reflective of chronic malnutrition, is of higher magnitude compared to wasting (considered to be an outcome of current acute malnutrition), as well as wasting and stunting. The stunting increased with increasing age of children. The data also suggested that over the period, the prevalence of stunting declined from 58 per cent in 1974 to 45 per cent in 1980. A corresponding increase in normals from 35 to 50 per cent has also been noticed during the same period.


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