© Kamla-Raj 2005                                                                         Anthropologist, 7(2): 99-103  (2005)

 

 

Nutritional Status : Anthropometric Perspective

of Pre-School Children

 

Ginjinder Kaur, Harmander Singh Kang, Pushpa Singal and S.P. Singh

 

Department of Human Biology, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002, Punjab, India

 

Keywords Malnutrition. Punjabi Children. Underweight. Stunted. Wasted. BMI

 

ABSTRACT A total of 6531 Punjabi children (3720 males and 2811 females) in the age range of 1 to 5 years were measured in this cross-sectional study during the months of October to December, 2001 inhabiting different parts of Punjab for assessing malnutrition using the criteria of weight-for-age, height-for-age, MUAC-for age (WHO, 1983), weight-for-height (WHO, 1995) and BMI (Rolland-Cachera et al., 1984). The percentage of children who were underweight, stunted, wasted and having low MUAC/age (having Z-scores of –2 SD or more below the reference mean or median value) was 15.04%, 11.42%, 10.76% and 38.52% respectively.

 

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