Original paper

Environmental temperature and growth faltering in African children: a cross-sectional study

Volume: 4, Issue: 3, Pages: e116 - e123
Published: Mar 1, 2020
Abstract
Child growth faltering persists in sub-Saharan Africa despite the scale-up of nutrition, water, and sanitation interventions over the past 2 decades. High temperatures have been hypothesised to contribute to child growth faltering via an adaptive response to heat, reduced appetite, and the energetic cost of thermoregulation. We did a cross-sectional study to assess whether child growth faltering is related to environmental temperature in...
Paper Details
Title
Environmental temperature and growth faltering in African children: a cross-sectional study
Published Date
Mar 1, 2020
Volume
4
Issue
3
Pages
e116 - e123
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