* Influence of feeding practices and associated factors on the nutritional status of infants in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh state, India.
- A community based cross-sectional study was undertaken in rural Madhya Pradesh (MP). The nutritional status of infants was assessed using WHO Child Growth Standards. Only 26% of infants received breast-feeding within 1 hour of birth. About 57% of children 6 to 11 months old received complementary feeding (CF). The prevalence of underweight, stunting, and wasting was 41%, 29%, and 33%, respectively. Multivariate analysis showed that the risk of underweight and stunting was 1.4 times higher among children belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes compared with others, 1.4 to 1.6 times among children from households with the lowest wealth index, and 1.5 times among children of illiterate mothers. Hygienic practices, birth weight, home delivery, and CF practices were also significantly (P < .01) associated with undernutrition in multivariate analysis. Undernutrition is an important health problem in MP, and urgent steps are required to formulate policies and strategies to improve infant and young child feeding practices, socioeconomic conditions, and literacy and encouraging institutional delivery and personal hygiene.
=>茂み, 成長, 増加, 発展, 栽培, 腫よう, 成長物
Overview of noun growth
The noun growth has 7 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (37) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of
an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an
organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of
osseous development in children")
2. (20) growth -- (a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture")
3. (3) increase, increment, growth -- (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or
more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population")
4. (3) growth -- (vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt
grass")
5. (1) emergence, outgrowth, growth -- (the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage
the emergence of sculpture in Greece")
6. growth -- ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
7. growth -- (something grown or growing; "a growth of hair")
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