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Nutritional status among young adolescents attending primary school in Tanzania: contributions of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for adolescent assessment

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Title
Nutritional status among young adolescents attending primary school in Tanzania: contributions of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for adolescent assessment
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BMC Public Health, November 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12889-019-7897-4
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Margaret Lillie, Isaac Lema, Sylvia Kaaya, Dori Steinberg, Joy Noel Baumgartner

Abstract

Adolescence is a critical time of development and nutritional status in adolescence influences both current and future adult health outcomes. However, data on adolescent nutritional status is limited in low-resource settings. Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) has the potential to offer a simple, low-resource alternative or supplement to body mass index (BMI) in assessing nutrition in adolescent populations. This is secondary data analysis, from a cross-sectional pilot study, which analyses anthropometric data from a sample of young adolescents attending their last year of primary school in Pwani Region and Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania (n = 154; 92 girls & 62 boys; mean age 13.2 years). The majority of adolescents (75%) were of normal nutritional status defined by BMI. Significantly more males were stunted than females, while significantly more females were overweight than males. Among those identified as outside the normal nutrition ranges, there was inconsistency between MUAC and BMI cut-offs. Bivariate analyses indicate that BMI and MUAC show a positive correlation for both female and male participants, and the relationship between BMI and MUAC was more strongly correlated among adolescent females. Further studies are needed with more nutritionally and demographically diverse populations to better understand the nutritional status of adolescents and the practical contribution of MUAC cut-offs to measure adolescent nutrition.

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Unknown 141 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 16%
Student > Bachelor 15 11%
Researcher 9 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 6%
Lecturer 6 4%
Other 18 13%
Unknown 61 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 15%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 2%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 66 47%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2019.
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#7,697,831
of 25,390,203 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#8,304
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#153,070
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#195
of 366 outputs
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