[Malnutrition and cognitive development if infants in rural marginalized areas in Mexico]
María Del Refugio Carrasco Quintero1, Luis Ortiz Hernández2, José Antonio Roldán Amaro1
1Departamento de Nutrición Aplicada y Educación Nutricional, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, D.F., México.
Objective:
To analyze the relationship between nutritional status measured by anthropometry and the mental, psychomotor and language development of infants in marginalized rural areas of Mexico.
Method:
Cross-sectional study with 576 infants aged from 7 to 26 months in four rural locations. Variables consisted of measures of anthropometric and cognitive development.
Results:
Infants with short stature had a lower rate of language development, while birth weight was marginally associated with psychomotor development.
Conclusion:
Although acute malnutrition (identified by underweight) is no longer a problem in rural areas of Mexico, chronic malnutrition (expressed as stunting) is still common and is associated with alterations in mental development in the child population.
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