Nutritional health status: association of stunted and wasted children and their mothers

• Main Authors: Ulfat Khadija (Author), Shahid Mahmood (Author), Ammara Ainee (Author), Muhammad Yousaf Quddoos (Author), Hajra Ahmad (Author), Afeefa Khadija (Author), Syeda Mahvish Zahra (Author), Ashiq Hussain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Across the globe, 149 and 49 million children are stunted and wasted, respectively. Prevalence of stunting and wasting is 40.2 and 17.7% in children of Pakistan. Stunting and wasting are accompanied with genetics, dietary factor, lack of information, bottle feeding, illiterate pa...