Timing of the Infancy-Childhood Growth Transition in Rural Gambia

The Karlberg model of human growth describes the infancy, childhood, and puberty (ICP) stages of human growth as continuous and overlapping, and defined by transitions driven by sequential additional effects of several endocrine factors that shape the growth trajectory and resultant adult size. Previous research has suggested that a delayed transition from the infancy to the childhood growth stage contributes to sub-optimal growth outcomes. A...