Targeting nutritional interventions: is there a role for growth monitoring?

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To test whether regular monitoring of weight is an efficient way to detect the development of malnutrition, two cohorts of children in Bangladesh and the Caribbean were followed prospectively for 18 months. Results showed that, after 1 year of age, body weight was more closely correlated with weight at 6 months of age than with weight changes in the previous three months. Moreover, weight at 6 months was significantly more closely correlated with later weight than birth weight or weight at 1 month. These findings indicate that targeting nutritional interventions at 6-month-old children who are in the lower portion of the weight distribution might be more efficient than using monthly growth monitoring or identification of low-birth-weight children

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