Birth weight and nutritional status of children under five in sub-Saharan Africa

Over the past three decades, undernutrition has become a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years globally. Low birth weight has been identified as a risk factor for child morbidity and mortality, especially among children under five years in sub-Saharan Africa. There i...

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Published in:PloS one 2022-06, Vol.17 (6), p.e0269279-e0269279
Main Authors: Aboagye, Richard Gyan, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, Frimpong, James Boadu, Archer, Anita Gracious, Adu, Collins, Hagan, Jr, John Elvis, Amu, Hubert, Yaya, Sanni
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Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Biology and Life Sciences
Birth size
Birth weight
Children
Children & youth
Confidence intervals
Datasets
Demographic aspects
Diet
Empirical analysis
Ethics
Evaluation
Health aspects
Health surveys
Households
Human nutrition
Low birth weight
Malnutrition
Medicine and Health Sciences
Morbidity
Mortality
Neonates
Nutrition
Nutritional status
People and Places
Preventable deaths
Regression analysis
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Social Sciences
Standard deviation
Statistical analysis
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sustainable development
Toilet facilities
Undernutrition
Underweight
Variables
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Summary:Over the past three decades, undernutrition has become a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years globally. Low birth weight has been identified as a risk factor for child morbidity and mortality, especially among children under five years in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, a paucity of empirical literature establishing the association between low birth weight and undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the association between birth weight and nutritional status of children under five in sub-Saharan Africa. Our analyses were performed on a weighted sample of 110,497 children under five years from 32 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Data were obtained from the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted from 2010 to 2019. We reported the prevalence of low birth weight and nutritional status (stunting, wasting, and underweight) for all the 32 countries using percentages. We used multilevel binary logistic regression to examine the association between birth weight and nutritional status (stunting, wasting, and underweight) of the children, controlling for covariates. The results of the regression analyses were presented using adjusted odds ratios (aOR) with 95% confidence intervals. Statistical significance was set at p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0269279