Sex effect on growth faltering in an indigenous ethnic minority population of infants in Israel

Objective: We examined sex effects on growth faltering in an indigenous population of Bedouin Arab infants born in Israel, an economically developed country. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Height-for-age Z -score (HAZ) at age 6, 12, 18 and 24 months was calculated for full-term, normal-birth-weight Bedouin infants born during years 2000–2009 and attending maternal and child health (MCH) clinics. Multivariate linear regression analysis...