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. 2016 Oct;19(15):2698-707.
doi: 10.1017/S1368980016000926. Epub 2016 Apr 28.

Stunting coexisting with overweight in 2·0-4·9-year-old Indonesian children: prevalence, trends and associated risk factors from repeated cross-sectional surveys

Cut Novianti Rachmi  1 , Kingsley Emwinyore Agho  2 , Mu Li  3 , Louise Alison Baur  1
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Stunting coexisting with overweight in 2·0-4·9-year-old Indonesian children: prevalence, trends and associated risk factors from repeated cross-sectional surveys

Cut Novianti Rachmi et al. Public Health Nutr. 2016 Oct.

Abstract

Objective: The persistence of undernutrition, along with overweight and obesity, constitute the double burden of malnutrition. The present study aimed to: (i) describe the prevalence and trends of concurrent stunting and overweight in Indonesian children; (ii) identify potentially associated risk factors; and (iii) determine whether stunted children are at greater risk of overweight compared with those of healthy height.

Design: A secondary data analysis of children aged 2·0-4·9 years in four cross-sectional studies of the Indonesian Family Life Survey. Children's height and BMI Z-scores were calculated based on the WHO Child Growth Standards (2006). We defined 'concurrent stunting and overweight' as height-for-age Z-score +1. Multivariate generalised linear latent and mixed models were used to determine associated risk factors.

Setting: Thirteen out of twenty-seven provinces in Indonesia.

Subjects: Children (n 4101) from four waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (1993-2007).

Results: There were inconsistent trends in the prevalence of concurrent stunting and overweight from waves 1 to 4. Children were more likely to be stunted and overweight when they were in the youngest age group (2·0-2·9 years), were weaned after the age of 6 months, had short-statured mothers or lived in rural areas. Stunted children were significantly more likely to be overweight than healthy-height children (OR>1) but did not differ significantly different across each wave (OR=1·34-2·01).

Conclusions: Concurrent stunting and overweight occurs in Indonesian children aged 2·0-4·9 years. Current policies and programmes need to be tailored for the management of this phenomenon.

Keywords: Children; Double burden; Indonesia; Overweight/obesity; Stunting.

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Odds ratios, with their 95% confidence intervals represented by horizontal bars, of stunted children aged 2·0–4·9 years being overweight; wave 1 (1993), wave 2 (1997), wave 3 (2000) and wave 4 (2007) of the Indonesian Family Life Survey
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